40+ Reassuring Bible Verses About God’s Love
Published November 8, 2022
Whenever we’re besieged with problems, most of us tend to think that God hates us. I mean, why else would He allow us to go through all that pain if He loves us, right?
But have you ever asked yourself why He willingly sent His only son to die for our sins? That’s such a big sacrifice to make for someone you hate, right? If He doesn’t love us, why does He always choose to forgive us and take us back no matter how many times we’ve sinned against Him?
One of the things I’ve realized while looking for Bible verses about God’s love is that it’s not the kind of love like how we humans understand love. Divine love is unfathomable and infinite. It’s more than just deep affection or profound devotion. Nor can it be measured in terms of the intensity of one’s emotion.
In the Bible, the word “khesed” is often used when referring to God’s love. It’s a Hebrew word that doesn’t have any equivalent translation in English. Basically, it’s a type of loyal commitment to be generous and kind to someone for a long time.
That is why God’s love is more than just affection. It’s rooted in commitment. Affection goes away after a time. But commitment can last a lifetime and even beyond that. Because of this, God’s love is often described as “steadfast” or “loyal” in the scriptures.
By sending His only son to save us from sin, he showed His “khesed” or commitment of generosity to humanity. He doesn’t really need to do that and it must have hurt Him to do so. Just imagine letting your only child die for the sins of ungrateful and selfish people. But He did it anyway because He knows that it’s our only chance at salvation. That’s how much He loves us.
So if you ever think that God hates you, here are some Bible verses to remind you of God’s divine love:
Bible Verses About God’s Love (Old Testament)
- And said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master’s kinsmen” – Genesis 24:27
- The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness – Exodus 34:6
- Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. – Lamentations 3:22-23
- Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. – Micah 7:18
- The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. – Zephaniah 3:17
- He said: ‘Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on the earth. You keep the covenant and show loyalty to your servants who walk before you with all their heart. – 2 Chronicles 6:14
- Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. – Isaiah 43:4-5
Psalms About God’s Love
- How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. – Psalms 36:7
- Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever. – Psalm 136:26
- Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. – Psalm 36:5-7
- Help me, LORD my God; save me according to your unfailing love. – Psalms 109:26
- My God in his steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies. – Psalm 59:10
- But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. – Psalms 86:15
- Let them thank the Lord for his faithful love and his wondrous works for all people, because God satisfied the one who was parched with thirst, and he filled up the hungry with good things! – Psalm 107:8-9
- He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. – Psalm 147:3
- Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. – Psalm 63:3
- Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions – Psalm 51:1
- Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me! – Psalm 66:20
- But let all who take refuge in you celebrate. Let them sing out loud forever! Protect them so that all who love your name can rejoice in you. Because you, Lord, bless the righteous. You cover them with favor like a shield. – Psalm 5:11-12
- As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. – Psalm 103:13
Bible Verses About God’s Unconditional Love
- 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. – John 3:16
- 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 54:10
- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8
- I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. – Galatians 2:20
- But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved. – Ephesians 2:4-5
- No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. – John 16:27
- But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. – Isaiah 53:5
Bible Verses About God’s Love For Us
- So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith – that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. – Ephesians 3:17-19
- A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. – John 13:34-35
- But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. – Deuteronomy 7:8
- Dear friends, let us love one another, for 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. – John 4:7-8
- This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. – John 4:9-11
- The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. – Jeremiah 31:3
- 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. – 1 John 4:16
- No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:37-39
- See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. – 1 John 3:11
- But you, dear friends: build each other up on the foundation of your most holy faith, pray in the Holy Spirit, keep each other in the love of God, wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will give you eternal life. – Jude 1:20-21
- Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. – John 15:13
- There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. – 1 John 4:18
- And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. – Romans 5:5
- We love because he first loved us. – 1 John 4:19
- For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. – Jeremiah 29:11
- As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. – John 15:9
- So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10
- Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. – 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
- For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. – 1 John 5:3
- He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. – Revelation 21:4
(Related: 40+ Bible Verses About How Friends Are a Blessing From God)
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