10 verses · KJV
Scripture defines love not as a feeling but as a way of acting — patient, kind, slow to keep score, quick to endure. And it traces all of it back to a source: we love because God first loved us. These are the verses people return to at weddings, in hard seasons, and whenever they need to remember what love actually looks like.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Read in contextJohn 3:16
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.
Read in context1 John 4:7-8
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Read in contextRomans 8:38-39
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Read in context1 John 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.
Read in contextJohn 13:34-35
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Read in context1 Peter 4:8
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Read in contextColossians 3:14
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Read in context1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Read in contextRomans 12:9-10
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Read in contextIt finds you.
Nemora is a journal that reads what you write and responds with Scripture meant for that moment. Write honestly — and let the Word meet you there.
Scripture defines love not as a feeling but as a way of acting — patient, kind, slow to keep score, quick to endure. And it traces all of it back to a source: we love because God first loved us. These are the verses people return to at weddings, in hard seasons, and whenever they need to remember what love actually looks like.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 is one of the most turned-to passages on love. It appears below alongside the other verses on this page, each shown in full so you can sit with the whole thought rather than a fragment.
Writing down what you are actually carrying — and then reading Scripture in response — turns a verse from words on a page into something spoken into your situation. Nemora was built for exactly this: you write, and Scripture responds.
