15 Bible Verses About Love – FREE DOWNLOAD
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Do you find it hard to love people sometimes?
Some of the hardest people to love are people in the church, because we have higher expectations of people who call themselves Christians.
Have you discovered yet that people in the church disappoint you and let you down as much as people in the world?
Have you been hurt or wounded by the church?
Love is one of those words we use all the time, but rarely take time to think about.
We say we love God, people, and the church in the same breath that we say we love spaghetti, our dog, and our new cell phone.
The English word for love is actually very bland and broad.
This is where we can turn to the various Greek words in the New Testament to see how God uses the word love, because the Greek language goes much deeper.
In 1 Corinthians 13, the “love chapter”, we find the Greek word for love is ἀγάπη: agapē.
Agape is a biblical, theological word for love that is a kind of love that only God can give.
When someone disappoints us, or misunderstands and wounds us, and we find it complicated to love them, God can give us His love.
That is why I wrote the study 14 Days of Agape.
15 Bible Verses About Love – FREE DOWNLOAD
I was at a time in my life when I was struggling to love my brothers and sisters in Christ.
I had been wounded in the church. I felt rejected and misunderstood. I felt that I hadn’t even been given a chance to show my church family who I was before I was shoved to the side.
The message was clear: I didn’t fit in.
My response was to pull away, build high walls around my heart, and reject any new person before they had a chance to reject me.
And this is exactly where I found myself one cold morning in February when I grabbed my Bible and asked the Lord where He wanted me to study next.
His answer was simple: 1 Corinthians 13.
I immediately rolled my eyes because it sounded so cliché. 1 Corinthians 13 in February, the love chapter, Valentine’s Day. Please.
But as I flipped through the pages of my well-worn Bible, looking for inspiration, the nudge toward 1 Corinthians 13 grew stronger and stronger.
And I knew that this truly was from the Lord.
What I couldn’t have predicted was just how much this study would change my life.
I breeze through it. I knew that if the Lord was impressing me this strongly to study this chapter, there must be a reason.
And indeed there was.
I took it verse by verse, day by day. And as I studied through this chapter, I wrote down what I was learning – and this would immediately become my very first Bible study titled 14 Days of Agape.
The first thing I learned was that this chapter was written to the church.
- Not married couples
- Not two people in love
- Not parents for their children
- Not even besties
The context of this chapter is a letter that Paul wrote to the church in Corinth as a rebuke and correction. So when we take this chapter within its proper context, we get a whole new meaning.
I have broken this chapter down into these free Bible verse cards for you, ending with an important warning from Revelation.
You can download them at the bottom of this post, but let’s take a look at each verse together.
1. 1 John 4:7-8
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:7-8
2. 1 Corinthians 13:1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1
3. 1 Corinthians 13:2
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
4. 1 Corinthians 13:3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:3
5. 1 Corinthians 13:4
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 1 Corinthians 13:4
6. 1 Corinthians 13:5a
does not behave rudely, 1 Corinthians 13:5a
7. 1 Corinthians 13:5b
does not seek its own, 1 Corinthians 13:5b
8. 1 Corinthians 13:5c
is not provoked, thinks no evil; 1 Corinthians 13:5c
9. 1 Corinthians 13:6
does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 1 Corinthians 13:6
10. 1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:7
11. 1 Corinthians 13:8-10
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.1 Corinthians 13:8
12. 1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11
13. 1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12
14. 1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
15. Revelation 2:1-5
“To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, ‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands: I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil.
And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.
Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.” Revelation 2:1-5
Download a free set of Bible verse cards for yourself when you click here or on the image below.
