Bible Verses About Obsessive Love
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for obsessive love, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,720 votes, led by Song of Songs 8:6-7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Obsessive Love
Song of Songs 8:6-7189 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.
1 John 4:18110 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 Corinthians 13:4-7109 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Genesis 29:18-20105 votes
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Colossians 3:590 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
2 Samuel 13:1-285 votes
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
Proverbs 4:2383 votes
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Matthew 22:37-3960 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.
1 Corinthians 13:4-555 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Hosea 2:19-2052 votes
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
Genesis 29:2050 votes
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
1 Samuel 18:1-349 votes
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Proverbs 27:448 votes
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs 6:2545 votes
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
2 Samuel 13:1-1544 votes
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
Colossians 3:1941 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Genesis 34:1-337 votes
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Proverbs 6:34-3537 votes
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Luke 14:2636 votes
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Ephesians 5:2536 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Corinthians 13:4-835 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Ephesians 5:25-2728 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Hosea 2:1924 votes
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
Song of Songs 3:1-422 votes
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Ephesians 5:25-2821 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
What does the Bible say about obsessive love?
Readers most often cite Song of Songs 8:6-7 on the subject of obsessive love. Across 1,720 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 John 4:18, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Genesis 29:18-20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.