22 Bible Verses about 'Loved' - NLT (2024)

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What is the Bible verse for being loved? ›

John 15:9–13

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

❐ 1 John 4:19 - Jesus Christ loved you first, and that is the only way you know true love. All these verses point to the truth that God loves us, and in the song, Lauren summarizes these truths in the phrase, “You say I am loved when I can't feel a thing” (Ingram, Mabury, & Daigle, 2018).

NLT My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.

13. Psalm 89:1–2. I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”

John 15:13 In-Context

12 My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you. 13 The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them. 14 And you are my friends if you do what I command you.

When we understand that we are fully known and truly loved by God, it allows us to come with confidence before His throne (Hebrews 4:16). Not because of anything we have done, but because of His glorious grace he has towards us.

Romans 5:8 - But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 1 John 4:16 - So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.

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.

What is a powerful scripture about love? ›

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

To recover man out of his fallen state, there is need of the word of God. The word translated "law," may be rendered doctrine, and be understood as meaning all that teaches us true religion. The whole is perfect; its tendency is to convert or turn the soul from sin and the world, to God and holiness.

8 Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you. 9 Rescue me from my enemies, LORD ; I run to you to hide me. 10 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

NLT Let the rich of the earth feast and worship. Bow before him, all who are mortal, all whose lives will end as dust. KJV All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

The Bible says in Ephesians 1:4-5, “Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure” (NLT).

Psalm 143:8. Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Much later, in his letter to the church at Ephesus, Paul prays his readers would experience and understand God's love, unique in its width, length, height and depth (see Ephesians 3:18).

"In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human successes, but on how well we have loved." "I may have all the faith needed to move mountains, but if I have no love, I am nothing." "Perfect loves casts out fear." "Who does not love does not know God; for God is love."