Bible Verses About Tough Love
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for tough love, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 796 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Tough Love
1 Corinthians 13:4-871 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Peter 4:863 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
2 Timothy 4:1-2246 votes
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Hebrews 12:1132 votes
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Matthew 7:1230 votes
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Galatians 6:529 votes
For every man shall bear his own burden.
John 3:1624 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.
James 1:1-2724 votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Matthew 7:1-2923 votes
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Romans 13:822 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
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 3:121 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.
1 Corinthians 16:1419 votes
Let all your things be done with charity.
Luke 6:27-4918 votes
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
1 John 4:1618 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.
Proverbs 13:2417 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
John 15:1317 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 5:817 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Colossians 3:1417 votes
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
1 John 4:7-816 votes
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Proverbs 3:3-415 votes
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Luke 4:1815 votes
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
1 Corinthians 13:1315 votes
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Ephesians 5:2515 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 John 4:815 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
What does the Bible say about tough love?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 on the subject of tough love. Across 796 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 4:8, 2 Timothy 4:1-22, Hebrews 12:11. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.