Bible Verses About First Love
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for first love, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 565 votes, led by Revelation 2:4-5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about First Love
Revelation 2:4-556 votes
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Revelation 2:450 votes
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
1 John 4:1939 votes
We love him, because he first loved us.
1 John 4:1831 votes
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:1027 votes
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
John 15:1324 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 3:1623 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.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1322 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 John 4:821 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:1621 votes
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Matthew 22:3718 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.
Romans 5:818 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:2017 votes
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
John 15:1216 votes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 13:3515 votes
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Romans 13:1015 votes
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 John 3:115 votes
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Matthew 24:1214 votes
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
1 John 4:1114 votes
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John 5:313 votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Hebrews 10:2412 votes
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
1 Corinthians 13:1311 votes
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 John 4:1211 votes
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Revelation 2:1-711 votes
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
Revelation 19:711 votes
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
What does the Bible say about first love?
Readers most often cite Revelation 2:4-5 on the subject of first love. Across 565 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Revelation 2:4, 1 John 4:19, 1 John 4:18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.