47 Bible Verses About God’s Unconditional Love

By David Small •  Updated: 03/04/22 •  11 min read

God, the creator of heaven and earth, loves each of us and shows it to us at different moments of life.

Although we have often strayed from him and his path by committing sins, he still loves us and wants to have a relationship with us.

He forgives us if we repent from the heart. He is a kind father.

That is why we need to fill ourselves with his beautiful and glorifying word, which we find in the Bible through the different biblical verses.

Find peace in your spirit with these 47 bible verses about God’s unconditional love so that at no time do you doubt His unwavering love for you.

Bible Verses About God’s Unconditional Love.

  1. John 4: 8

He who does not love does not know God because God is love.

  1. Psalm 143:8

In the morning, let me know of your great love because I have put my trust in you. Show me the path that I must follow because of you. I raise my soul.

  1. Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,” Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.

  1. Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

  1. 2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

  1. Psalm 103:13-14

As a father pities his children, So the LORD pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

  1. Romans 8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Bible Verses About God’s Unconditional Love In The New Testament.

God loves us so much that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to come to this sinful world and die for our sake.

God did not feel good about sending his son to suffer, but it was what should be done out of love.

Christ so loved (agape) that he gave his life. He didn’t want to die himself, but he loved, so he did what God required.

  1. John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life

  1. 1 John 4:10

And this love consists, not in that we loved God, but in that he loved us and sent his Son as an atonement for our sins

  1. 1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has bestowed us, so that we may be called children of God! And we are. If the world does not know us, it is because it did not know him.

  1. Titus 3:4-6

But when the goodness of God our Savior and his love for men were made manifest, he saved us, not because of the works of righteousness which we would have done, but according to his mercy, by the baptism of regeneration and the renewal of the Holy Spirit, which he has poured out upon us in abundance through Jesus Christ our Savior

  1. John 6:37-38

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

  1. James 2:8

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well

  1. 1 John 4:7-8

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

  1. 1 John 4:16

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Bible Verses About God’s Unconditional Love In The Old Testament

God is Love. God’s unconditional love is greater than that of the most loving mother in the world.

Even if you have never known the love of your earthly parents, you can know the great love of God. The very nature of God is love. He loves us unconditionally

  1. Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.

  1. Genesis 24:27

And he said, “Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brethren.”

  1. Psalms 36:7

How precious is Your loving kindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.

  1. Psalm 36:5-7

Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the great mountains; Your judgments are a great deep; O LORD, You preserve man and beast. How precious is Your loving kindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.

  1. 1 Chronicles 16:34

Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

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  1. Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

  1. 2 Chronicles 6:14

and he said: “LORD God of Israel, there is no God in heaven or on earth like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

Also See: Top 55 Inspirational Bible Verses about Love.

  1. Psalm 86:5

For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.

  1. Lamentations 3:20-23

My soul still remembers And sinks within me. This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

  1. Song of Solomon 2:4

He brought me to the banqueting house, And his banner over me was love.

  1. Deuteronomy 7:7-8

The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

God’s unconditional love for his people is sovereign.

God showed his love in this way: he saved us by bringing us out of darkness into light.

He changed our status. gave us a new identity. He brought us into a new reality. He does not love us because we deserve it or anything we do right and loves us unconditionally.

  1. 1 Peter 2:9

And, this sovereign love of God for the nation of Israel but also the people of the Church, we are “a holy nation, a people acquired, so that you proclaim the virtues of him who called you from darkness to his own wonderful light”

  1. Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

  1. Jeremiah 31:3

The Lord shows himself to me from afar: I love you with everlasting love; therefore I preserve my goodness to you.

  1. Hosea 11:4

I pulled them with bonds of humanity, with cords of love, I was to them like one who would have released the yoke near their mouth, and I offered them food

  1. 1 John 5:3

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

  1. Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood

  1. 1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us

Bible Verses About God’s Unconditional Love In Paul’s Letter

Paul’s revelation of God’s unconditional love was so amazing. Jesus is the one who died for us and was raised again to continually intercede for us.

So in light of these, we have a great assurance that nothing would separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.

  1. Romans 5:5

Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

  1. 2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace

  1. Romans 8:38-39

For I am assured that neither death nor life, neither angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God manifested in Jesus Christ our Lord

  1. Ephesians 2:4-5

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, we who had died of our trespasses, made us alive with Christ (it is by grace that you are saved

  1. Romans 5:8

But God shows his love for us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us

  1. 2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord lead you to love as God loves and to persevere as Christ persevered.

Bible verses to help you live and understand God’s constant, unwavering and enduring love

As Christians, we are called to love our neighbors, not just those we naturally love.

Fortunately, to guide us in this impossible task, we have the greatest examples before our eyes: God, who loves us unconditionally and who is himself, love.

The only way to learn to love others truly is to know His love for us and to learn to love Him. God teaches us throughout the Bible that his love is perfect, unconditional, strong, enduring, faithful, and so much more.

God’s love for each of us is deeper and stronger than you can imagine. By leaning into this love and learning what agape love looks like, we too can learn to love unconditionally.

  1. 1 John 4:9-11

In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

  1. Psalms 136:1

Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

  1. Song of Songs 8:7

Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house, It would be utterly despised.

  1. Psalm 86:15

But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

  1. John 15:9

“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

  1. Deuteronomy 7:9

“Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments

  1. Deuteronomy 7:8

But because the Lord loves you, because he wanted to keep the oath that he had made to your fathers, the Lord brought you out. By his mighty hand hath delivered you out of the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt

  1. Isaiah 37:35

For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.

In conclusion

I hope these bible verses about God’s unconditional love has been a blessing to you. No matter what you are going through in this life, you can always repent and turn back to God.

He will forgive us just as he has taught us to forgive, seven times seventy. He loves us that much.  His love for us is unconditionally.

David Small

Is an Ordained Minister and Life Coach. He is an ordained minister since 1988. Shortly after receiving Jesus as his personal savior, he answered the call to ministry.

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