The best Bible verses for love for prayer include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for love for prayer, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God."1 John 4:7
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God."1 John 4:7
"Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well."1 John 5:1
"Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."2 Corinthians 9:7
"For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,"Colossians 1:13
"He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing."Deuteronomy 10:18
"But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you,"Deuteronomy 15:16
"If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,"Deuteronomy 21:15
"when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love."Deuteronomy 21:16
"However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you."Deuteronomy 23:5
"Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless."Ecclesiastes 5:10
"to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves."Ephesians 1:6
"In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself."Ephesians 5:28
"However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband."Ephesians 5:33
"because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.”"Hebrews 12:6
A verse used for love for prayer works differently from one you read once. It gets returned to, repeated, and sat with — so it needs enough depth to reward a second and tenth reading, and enough clarity that you are not decoding it every time.
The 15 passages here hold up to repetition. Each is short enough to carry from memory and substantial enough that it does not wear out.
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The most-cited Bible verses for love for prayer are 1 John 4:7, 1 John 4:21, 1 John 5:1. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to love for prayer across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for love for prayer, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.