What Does the Bible Say About Love? Walking It Out Daily
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Love is the greatest thing in the Bible — and the hardest to live. It's easy to talk about love on Sunday and forget it by Monday. So what does the Bible actually say about love, and how do you walk it out on an ordinary Tuesday? Here are seven answers from the King James Bible.
1. The Greatest Commandment — Matthew 22:37-38
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.”
Jesus swept hundreds of commandments into two sentences: love God with everything, love your neighbor as yourself. Every commandment is just love spelled out in a specific situation. If those two are alive, everything else follows.
2. The Love Chapter — 1 Corinthians 13:13
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
You can have every gift in the catalog, and without love it's just noise. Charity — God's kind of love — is a decision and an action, not a feeling. Read verses 4-7 with your own name in place of “charity,” and you'll find your assignment.
3. God Is Love — 1 John 4:8
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
John doesn't say God is loving — he says God is love. And the proof is the cross: while we were still running, He loved us first. Loving difficult people isn't about manufacturing feelings; it's about remembering what God did for you when you were difficult to love.
4. Love Your Enemies — Luke 6:36
“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.”
The hardest teaching in the Bible — and Jesus doesn't lower the bar. Love for enemies isn't a feeling you wait for; it's small, deliberate choices. Pray for them by name. Do one quiet good. Let your heart catch up later.
5. The Proof of Discipleship — John 13:35
“By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
Not by doctrine, politics, or church attendance — by love. Love is the uniform. Would anyone know you're a Christian by the way you treat the cashier, the difficult relative, the believer who annoys you?
6. Put On Love — Colossians 3:14
“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”
Paul pictures the Christian life like getting dressed: every morning, you put on kindness, patience, humility — on purpose, by choice. Love is the belt that holds every other virtue together.
7. Walk in Love — Ephesians 5:2
“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”
Not sprint in love. Not feel love intensely once in a while. Walk — steady, daily, ordinary. God cares far more about your daily direction than your occasional intensity.
Go Deeper: 10 Days of Learning to Love
Love is a walk, not a moment — and every walk starts with a step. Our Walking in Love — KJV Bible Study Library, Vol. 4 gives you ten guided studies on loving God and loving people, with devotionals, reflection questions, prayers, and journaling space, all from the King James Version.
Lord, teach us to love like You. Start today.