Love Verses in the Bible - Malachi

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Loved

• Malachi 1:2
• "'I have loved you', says the Lord.  But you ask, 'How have you loved us?'  'Was not Esau Jacob's brother?' the Lord says.  'Yet I have loved Jacob,'"

Loves

• Malachi 2:11
• "Judah has broken faith.  A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves, by marrying the daughter of a foreign god."

Love Verses in the Bible - Zechariah

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Zechariah 8:17
• "do not plot evil against your neighbor, and do not love to sear falsely.  I hate all this,' declares the Lord."
• Zechariah 8:19
• "This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah.  Therefore love truth and peace."

Love Verses in the Bible - Haggai

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

There are no love verses in Haggai

Love Verses in the Bible - Zephaniah

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

Love

• Zephaniah 3:17
• "The Lord your God is with you, he is might to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."

Love Verses in the Bible - Habakkuk

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

There are no love verses in Habakkuk

Love Verses in the Bible - Nahum

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

There are no verses on love in Nahum.

Love Verses in the Bible - Micah

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Micah 3:2
• "you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;"
• Micah 6:8
• "He has showed you, O man, 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."

Love Verses in the Bible - Jonah

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Jonah 4:2
• "He prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still at home?  That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish.  I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity."

Love Verses in the Bible - Obadiah

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

There are no love verses in Obadiah.

Love Verses in the Bible - Amos

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Amos 4:5
• "'Burn leavened bread as a thank offering and brad about your freewill offerings -- boast about them, you Israelites, for this what you love to do,' declares the Sovereign Lord."
• Amos 5:15
• "Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts.  Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph."

Lovely

• Amos 8:13
• "'In that day, they lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of the thirst.'"

Love Verses in the Bible - Joel

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Joel 2:13
• "Rend your heart and not your garments.  Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity."

Love Verses in the Bible - Hosea

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Hosea 1:6
• "Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter.  Then the Lord said to Hosea, 'Call her Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer show love to the house of Israel, that I should at all forgive them."
• Hosea 1:7
• "Yet I will show love to the house of Judah; and I will save them -- not by bow, sword or batter, or by horses and horsemen, but by the Lord their God."
• Hosea 2:4
• "I will not show my love to her children, because they are the children of adultery."
• Hosea 2:19
• "I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion."
• Hosea 2:23
• "I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one.'  I will say to those called 'Not my people,' 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.'"
• Hosea 3:1
• "The Lord said to me, 'Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress.  Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.'"
• Hosea 4:1
• "Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: 'There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.'"
• Hosea 4:18
• "Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways."
• Hosea 6:4
• "What can I do with you, Ephraim?  What can I do with you, Judah?  Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears."
• Hosea 9:1
• "Do not rejoice, O Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations.  For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor."
• Hosea 9:15
• "Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there.  Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house.  I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious."
• Hosea 10:12
• "Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers righteousness on you."
• Hosea 11:4
• "I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them."
• Hosea 12:6
• "But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always."
• Hosea 14:4
• "I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them."

Loved

• Hosea 2:1
• "Say of your brothers, 'My people,' and of your sisters, 'My loved one.'"
• Hosea 2:23
• "I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one.'  I will say to those called 'Not my people,' 'You are my people'; and they will say, 'You are my God.'"
• Hosea 3:1
• "The Lord said to me, 'Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress.  Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin'"
• Hosea 9:10
• "'When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your fathers, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree.  But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved."
• Hosea 11:1
• "When Israel was a while, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son."

Lovers

• Hosea 2:5
• "Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace.  She said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.'"
• Hosea 2:7
• "She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them.  Then she will say, 'I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off thean now.'"
• Hosea 2:10
• "So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands."
• Hosea 2:12
• "I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them."
• Hosea 2:13
• "I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot, declares the Lord.'"
• Hosea 8:9
• "For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone.  Ephraim has sold herself to lovers."

Loves

• Hosea 3:1
• "The Lord said to me, 'Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress.  Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.'"
• Hosea 10:11
• "Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her fair neck.  I will drive Ephraim, Judah must plow, and Jacob must break up the ground."
• Hosea 12:7
• "The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud."

Love Verses in the Bible - Daniel

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Daniel 9:4
• "I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed: 'O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands,'"

Love Verses in the Bible - Ezekiel

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Ezekiel 16:8
• "'Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness.  I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine."
• Ezekiel 23:17
• "Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her.  After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust."
• Ezekiel 33:32
• "Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice."

Loved

• Ezekiel 16:37
• "therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated.  I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see all your nakedness."

Lovers

• Ezekiel 16:33
• "Every prostitute receives a fee, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors."
• Ezekiel 16:36
• "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children's blood,"
• Ezekiel 16:37
• "therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated.  I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see all your nakedness."
• Ezekiel 16:39
• "Then I will hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines.  They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you naked and bard."
• Ezekiel 16:41
• "They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women.  I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers."
• Ezekiel 23:5
• "Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians -- warriors"
• Ezekiel 23:9
• "Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted."
• Ezekiel 23:20
• "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."
• Ezekiel 23:22
• "Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side --"

Love Verses in the Bible - Lamentations

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Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Lamentations 3:22
• "Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail."
• Lamentations 3:32
• "Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love."

Lovers

• Lamentations 1:2
• "Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are upon her cheeks.  Among all her lovers there is none to comfort her.  All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies."

Love Verses in the Bible - Jeremiah

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Jeremiah 2:25
• "Do not run until your feet are bard and your throat is dry.  But you said, 'It's no use!  I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.'"
• Jeremiah 2:33
• "How skilled you are at pursuing love!  Even the worst of women can learn from your ways."
• Jeremiah 5:31
• "The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way.  But what will you do in the end?"
• Jeremiah 12:7
• "I will forsake my house, abandon my inheritance; I will give the one I love into the hands of her enemies."
• Jeremiah 14:10
• "This is what the Lord says about this people: 'They greatly love to wander; they do not restrain their feet.  So the Lord does not accept them; he will now remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins."
• Jeremiah 16:5
• "For this is what the Lord says: 'Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,' declares the Lord."
• Jeremiah 31:3
• "The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: 'I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.'"
• Jeremiah 32:18
• "You show love to thousands but bring the punishment for the fathers' sins into the laps of their children after them.  O great and powerful God, whose name is the Lord Almighty."
• Jeremiah 33:11
• "the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord, saying, 'Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good; his love endures forever.'"

Loved

• Jeremiah 2:2
• "'Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: 'I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown.''"
• Jeremiah 8:2
• "They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.  They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like refuse lying on the ground."
• Jeremiah 31:3
• "The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: 'I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness."

Lovers

• Jeremiah 3:1
• "If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again?  Would not the land be completely defiled?  But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers -- would you now return to me?' declares the Lord."
• Jeremiah 3:2
• "'Look up to the barren heights and see.  Is there any place where you have not been ravished?  By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert.  You have defined the land with your prostitution and wickedness."
• Jeremiah 4:30
• "What are you doing, O devastated one?  Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold?  Why shade your eyes with paint?  You adorn yourself in vain.  Your lovers despise you; they seek your life."

Loving-kindness

• Jeremiah 31:3
• "The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: 'I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness."

Love Verses in the Bible - Isaiah

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Isaiah 1:23
• "Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts.  They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them."
• Isaiah 5:1
• "I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside."
• Isaiah 16:5
• "In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit on it -- one from the house of David -- one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness."
• Isaiah 38:17
• "Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish.  In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back."
• Isaiah 43:4
• "Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life."
• Isaiah 54:10
• "Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you."
• Isaiah 55:3
• "Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live, I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David."
• Isaiah 56:6
• "And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve him, to love the name of the Lord, and to worship him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant --"
• Isaiah 56:10
• "Israel's watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep."
• Isaiah 57:8
• "Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols.  Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked on their nakedness."
• Isaiah 61:8
• "For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity.  In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them."
• Isaiah 63:9
• "In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them.  In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old."
• Isaiah 66:10
• "Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who lover her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her."

Loved

• Isaiah 5:1
• "I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: my loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside."

Love Verses in the Bible - Song of Solomon

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Song of Solomon 1:2
• "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth -- for your love is more delightful than wine."
• Song of Solomon 1:3
• "Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out.  No wonder the maidens love you!"
• Song of Solomon 1:4
• "Take me away with you -- let us hurry!  Let the king bring me into his chambers.  We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine.  How right they are to adore you!"
• Song of Solomon 1:7
• "Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday.  Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?"
• Song of Solomon 2:4
• "He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love."
• Song of Solomon 2:5
• "Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faith with love."
• Song of Solomon 2:7
• "Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires."
• Song of Solomon 3:5
• "Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires."
• Song of Solomon 4:10
• "How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride!  How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice!"
• Song of Solomon 5:8
• "O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you -- if you find my lover, what will you tell him?  Tell him I am faith with love."
• Song of Solomon 7:6
• "How beautiful you are and how pleasing, O love, with your delights! "
• Song of Solomon 7:12
• "Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom -- there I will give you my love."
• Song of Solomon 8:4
• "Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires."
• 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."
• Song of Solomon 8:7
• "Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away.  If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned."

Lovely

• Song of Solomon 1:5
• "Dark am I, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon."
• Song of Solomon 2:14
• "My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely."
• Song of Solomon 4:3
• "Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely.  Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate."
• Song of Solomon 5:16
• "His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely.  This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem."
• Song of Solomon 6:4
• "You are beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, majestic as troops with banners."

Lover

• Song of Solomon 1:13
• "My lover is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts."
• Song of Solomon 1:14
• "My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi"
• Song of Solomon 1:16
• "How handsome you are, my lover!  Oh, how charming!  And our bed is verdant."
• Song of Solomon 2:3
• "Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my lover among the young men.  I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste."
• Song of Solomon 2:8
• "Listen!  My lover!  Look!  Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills."
• Song of Solomon 2:9
• "My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag.  Look!  There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice."
• Song of Solomon 2:10
• "My lover spoke and said to me, 'Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.'"
• Song of Solomon 2:16
• "My lover is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies."
• Song of Solomon 2:17
• "Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills."
• Song of Solomon 4:16
• "Awake, north wind, and come, south wind!  Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread abroad.  Let my lover come into his garden and taste its choice fruits."
• Song of Solomon 5:2
• "I slept but my heart was awake.  Listen!  My lover is knocking: 'Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one.  My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.'"
• Song of Solomon 5:4
• "My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him."
• Song of Solomon 5:5
• "I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock."
• Song of Solomon 5:6
• "I opened for my lover, by my lover had left; he was gone.  My heart sank at his departure.  I looked for him but did not find him.  I called to him but he did not answer."
• Song of Solomon 5:8
• "O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you -- If you find my lover, what will you tell him?  Tell him I am faint with love."
• Song of Solomon 5:10
• "My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand,"
• Song of Solomon 5:16
• "His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovey.  This is my lover, this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem"
• Song of Solomon 6:1
• "Where has your lover gone, most beautiful of women?  Which way did your lover turn, that we may look for him with you?"
• Song of Solomon 6:2
• "My lover has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies."
• Song of Solomon 6:3
• "I am my lover's and my lover is mine; he browses among the lilies."
• Song of Solomon 7:9
• "and your mouth like the best wine.  May the wine go straight to my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth."
• Song of Solomon 7:10
• "I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me."
• Song of Solomon 7:11
• "Come, my lover, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages."
• Song of Solomon 7:13
• "The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my lover."
• Song of Solomon 8:5
• "Who is this coming up from the desert leaning on her lover?"
• Song of Solomon 8:14
• "Come away, y lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountain."

Lover's

• Song of Solomon 6:3
• "I am my lover's and my lover is mine; he browses among the lilies."

Lovers

• Song of Solomon 5:1
• "I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.  I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk."

Loves

• Song of Solomon 3:1
• "All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him."
• Song of Solomon 3:2
• "I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves.  So I looked for him but did not find him."
• Song of Solomon 3:3
• "The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city.  'Have you seen the one my heart loves?'"
• Song of Solomon 3:4
• "Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves.  I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me."