Genesis 2:24 — That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Deuteronomy 6:5 — Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Psalm 136:1 — Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.
Proverbs 10:12 — Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
Song of Solomon 8:6-7 — 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. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
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.’
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.
Romans 13:10 — Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Ephesians 5:25 — Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
John 4:7-8 — When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
John 4:19 — “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.
A Story of Love in the Old Testament
Ruth 1:16-17 — But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”
A Story of Love in the New Testament
John 15:13 — Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.