Use these 25 inspiring Bible verses for Valentine’s Day in cards for everyone from your husband and kids to friends at church as heartfelt reminders of God’s love.
Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to celebrate love in all its forms—romantic love (for a husband, wife, boyfriend, etc), friendship, family (your kids, parents, grandparents, aunts, sisters), and, most importantly, God’s everlasting love for us.
Whether you’re looking for inspiration to write in Valentine’s Day cards, creating meaningful crafts with your kids, or sharing faith-filled encouragement, the Bible offers countless verses about love to celebrate this special day.
If you are single, you may even be looking into self love and what the Bible says about it.
Whether you are single or married, a parent or not, retired or working…I pray that in every season, you would take God’s love personally.
He doesn’t just love everyone. He loves you.
Below, you will find 25 Bible verses about love, perfect for Valentine’s Day. Each verse also has a wallpaper graphic you can save to your phone to help you memorize these verses or just as an ever-present reminder of God’s love for you.
Share these heartfelt Valentine verses with your loved ones and use these Scriptures to remind you of the true source of unconditional, sacrificial love—God Himself.
Scriptures On Love For Valentine’s Day
Printable Valentine’s Day Bible Verses
1 – 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
2 – 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.
3 – 1 John 4:19
We love because he first loved us.
4 – John 15:12
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
5 – John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
6 – Romans 12:9
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
7 – Romans 13:10
Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
8 – Ephesians 4:2
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
9 – Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
10 – 1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
11 – Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
12 – Matthew 22:37-39
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
13 – 1 Corinthians 16:14
Do everything in love.
14 – Song of Solomon 8:6
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
15 – Galatians 5:13
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
16 – Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
17 – Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
18 – Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
19 – 2 Timothy 1:7
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
20 – 1 John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
21 – Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
22 – 1 John 4:16
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
23 – Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.
24 – 2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
25 – Mark 12:30-31
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
