The best Bible verses for love (MSG) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for love (MSG), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Then God ordered me, "Start all over: Love your wife again, your wife who's in bed with her latest boyfriend, your cheating wife. Love her the way I, God, love the Israelite people, even as they flirt and party with every god that takes their fancy.""Hosea 3:1
"Then God ordered me, "Start all over: Love your wife again, your wife who's in bed with her latest boyfriend, your cheating wife. Love her the way I, God, love the Israelite people, even as they flirt and party with every god that takes their fancy.""Hosea 3:1
"It's the person who loves brother and sister who dwells in God's light and doesn't block the light from others."1 John 2:10
"Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father."1 John 2:15
"My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God."1 John 4:7
"The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both."1 John 4:21
"Every person who believes that Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God-begotten. If we love the One who conceives the child, we'll surely love the child who was conceived."1 John 5:1
"I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over, and make up your own mind what you will give. That will protect you against sob stories and arm-twisting. God loves it when the giver delights in the giving."2 Corinthians 9:7
"God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He's set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much,"Colossians 1:13
"makes sure orphans and widows are treated fairly, takes loving care of foreigners by seeing that they get food and clothing."Deuteronomy 10:18
"But if your slave, because he loves you and your family and has a good life with you, says, "I don't want to leave you,""Deuteronomy 15:16
"When a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and they both give him sons, but the firstborn is from the hated wife,"Deuteronomy 21:15
"at the time he divides the inheritance with his sons he must not treat the son of the loved wife as the firstborn, cutting out the son of the hated wife, who is the actual firstborn."Deuteronomy 21:16
"God, your God, refused to listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing—how God, your God, loves you!"Deuteronomy 23:5
"The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, Nor the one who loves wealth with big profits. More smoke."Ecclesiastes 5:10
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
Receive a curated verse every morning — no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
The most-cited Bible verses for love (MSG) are Hosea 3:1, 1 Corinthians 8:3, 1 John 2:10. 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 (MSG) 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 (MSG), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.