Bible Verses About A Time for Love
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for a time for love, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,479 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about A Time for Love
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8715 votes
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:8194 votes
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13154 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Peter 4:8142 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Colossians 3:14138 votes
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Song of Songs 8:6-7124 votes
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Proverbs 10:12117 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Matthew 22:37-39116 votes
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Ephesians 5:25105 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 John 4:899 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:7-880 votes
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 Corinthians 16:1476 votes
Let all your things be done with charity.
Romans 12:9-1062 votes
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
John 13:34-3555 votes
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
1 John 4:7-1254 votes
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 Corinthians 13:4-753 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 John 3:1851 votes
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Romans 13:1047 votes
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 John 4:1947 votes
We love him, because he first loved us.
John 10:1145 votes
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John 3:1644 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Galatians 5:22-2344 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
John 15:1341 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 12:941 votes
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Ephesians 5:1141 votes
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
What does the Bible say about a time for love?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 on the subject of a time for love. Across 3,479 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 3:8, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, 1 Peter 4:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.