Memorize Scripture

Bible Verses About Loving Others

Jesus said the world would know his disciples by their love for one another. These passages describe that love, beginning with Paul’s portrait of what love does and does not do.

When to say them. Say them before you walk into a room, and when someone is hard to love.

6 passages to memorize

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:4–7 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  2. John 13:34–35 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
    An example of praying it: Lord Jesus, you have loved me, and you command me to love others in the same way. Bring to mind the believer I find hardest to love. Help me love them as you have loved me, so that everyone will know we are your disciples.
  3. 1 John 4:7–8 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
  4. 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
  5. Colossians 3:14 And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
  6. 1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

You can pray any of these passages, memorized or not. How to pray scripture.

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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible or World English Bible, as you choose under “Bible text”. The coach’s voice is computer-generated.