Bible Verses About Lack of Love
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for lack of love, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,104 votes, led by 1 Peter 4:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lack of Love
1 Peter 4:8226 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3206 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 4:8183 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Matthew 24:12156 votes
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
1 John 4:20128 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?
1 Corinthians 13:1-13127 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 3:17110 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
John 13:34-35108 votes
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Revelation 2:4-5104 votes
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
1 John 4:7-881 votes
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Romans 13:1070 votes
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
2 Timothy 3:1-564 votes
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
1 John 4:1662 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.
1 John 2:9-1157 votes
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
1 Corinthians 13:4-756 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Matthew 22:37-3955 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.
James 2:15-1653 votes
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Romans 12:951 votes
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
John 3:1648 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 13:4-848 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Proverbs 10:1246 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
John 15:1343 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 12:9-1043 votes
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
1 Timothy 1:540 votes
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
2 Timothy 2:24-2539 votes
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
What does the Bible say about lack of love?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 4:8 on the subject of lack of love. Across 3,104 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 1 John 4:8, Matthew 24:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.