Concordance

“Love” in the Bible

618 verses contain “love” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 22:2 “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will…
Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Genesis 25:28 Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 27:4 Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
Genesis 27:9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
Genesis 27:14 So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
Genesis 29:18 Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Genesis 29:20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
Genesis 29:30 Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
Genesis 29:32 And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
Genesis 34:3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
Genesis 37:4 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 44:20 …e is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves…
Exodus 15:13 With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.
Exodus 20:6 but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Exodus 21:5 But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
Exodus 34:6 … is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and…
Exodus 34:7 maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the…
Leviticus 19:18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:34 You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Numbers 14:18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the…
Numbers 14:19 Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
Deuteronomy 4:37 Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
Deuteronomy 5:10 but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the…
Deuteronomy 7:9 …your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His…
Deuteronomy 7:12 If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 7:13 He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds…
Deuteronomy 10:12 …ut to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your…
Deuteronomy 10:15 Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:19 So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 11:1 You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
Deuteronomy 11:13 So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:22 For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
Deuteronomy 13:3 …or the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your…
Deuteronomy 15:16 But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,
Deuteronomy 19:9 …arefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these…
Deuteronomy 23:5 Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
Deuteronomy 30:6 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30:16 For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase,…
Deuteronomy 30:20 and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to…
Deuteronomy 33:3 Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
Joshua 22:5 …and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve…
Joshua 23:11 Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
Judges 5:31 So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
Judges 14:16 … to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not…
Judges 16:4 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Judges 16:15 “How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your…
Ruth 1:8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
Ruth 4:15 He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
1 Samuel 1:5 But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
1 Samuel 18:1 After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
1 Samuel 18:3 Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
1 Samuel 18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he was leading them out to battle and back.
1 Samuel 18:20 Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
1 Samuel 18:22 …‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his…
1 Samuel 18:28 When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
1 Samuel 20:14 And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,
1 Samuel 20:15 and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
1 Samuel 20:17 And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
2 Samuel 1:26 I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
2 Samuel 2:6 Now may the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness, and I will also show you the same favor because you have done this.
2 Samuel 7:15 But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way.
2 Samuel 12:24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
2 Samuel 12:25 and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.
2 Samuel 13:1 After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
2 Samuel 13:4 … after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s…
2 Samuel 13:15 Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
2 Samuel 15:20 …back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and…
2 Samuel 19:6 You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if…
2 Samuel 22:51 Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
1 Kings 2:7 But show loving devotion to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they stood by me when I fled from your…
1 Kings 3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
1 Kings 3:6 Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of…
1 Kings 8:23 …in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their…
1 Kings 10:9 … you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and…
1 Kings 11:1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
1 Kings 11:2 …arts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in…
1 Chronicles 16:34 Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:41 With them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the LORD, for “His loving devotion endures forever.”
1 Chronicles 17:13 I will be his Father, and he will be My son. And I will never remove My loving devotion from him as I removed it from your predecessor.
2 Chronicles 1:8 Solomon replied to God: “You have shown much loving devotion to my father David, and You have made me king in his place.
2 Chronicles 2:11 Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”
2 Chronicles 5:13 …al instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a…
2 Chronicles 6:14 …od like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their…
2 Chronicles 6:42 O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”
2 Chronicles 7:3 …worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures…
2 Chronicles 7:6 …D and with which David had offered praise, saying, “For His loving devotion endures forever.” Across from the Levites, the priests sounded trumpets, and all the…
2 Chronicles 9:8 …s throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and…
2 Chronicles 11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of…
2 Chronicles 19:2 …d said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon…
2 Chronicles 20:21 … army, they were singing: “Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures…
2 Chronicles 32:32 As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of loving devotion, they are indeed written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz in the Book of the…
2 Chronicles 35:26 As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with his deeds of loving devotion according to what is written in the Law of the LORD—
Ezra 3:11 …aise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD,…
Nehemiah 1:5 Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
Nehemiah 9:17 … God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake…
Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
Nehemiah 13:22 …ell, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving…
Nehemiah 13:26 …here was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into…
Esther 2:17 And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon…
Job 10:12 You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
Job 19:19 All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
Job 37:13 Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
Psalms 4:2 How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah
Psalms 5:7 But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
Psalms 5:11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.
Psalms 6:4 Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
Psalms 11:7 For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
Psalms 13:5 But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.
Psalms 17:7 Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.
Psalms 18:1 I love You, O LORD, my strength.
Psalms 18:50 Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
Psalms 21:7 For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.
Psalms 25:6 Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
Psalms 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
Psalms 25:10 All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
Psalms 26:3 For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
Psalms 26:8 O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
Psalms 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.
Psalms 31:16 Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me by Your loving devotion.
Psalms 31:21 Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege.
Psalms 31:23 Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
Psalms 32:10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
Psalms 33:5 The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
Psalms 33:18 Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
Psalms 33:22 May Your loving devotion rest on us, O LORD, as we put our hope in You.
Psalms 36:5 Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
Psalms 36:7 How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
Psalms 36:10 Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
Psalms 37:28 For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
Psalms 40:10 … Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great…
Psalms 40:11 O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
Psalms 40:16 May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “The LORD be magnified!”
Psalms 42:8 The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 44:26 Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
Psalms 45:7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
Psalms 47:4 He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
Psalms 48:9 Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.
Psalms 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 52:1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
Psalms 52:3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
Psalms 52:4 You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
Psalms 52:8 But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
Psalms 57:3 He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
Psalms 57:10 For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
Psalms 59:10 My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.

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