7 Wedding Readings About Love
Quick Summary
These seven Bible readings about love offer beautiful, timeless words for wedding ceremonies. Each passage highlights a different facet of love — steadfastness, friendship, covenant, compassion, and God’s faithful care — and includes the full NRSV text for easy use in a ceremony or program.
Introduction
Weddings invite Scripture that speaks directly to love — not only romantic affection but the deeper, steady love that Scripture calls covenant. Love that is patient. Love that holds fast in difficulty. Love that chooses the good of the other.
These readings gather some of the most beloved passages about love in the Bible. They come from ancient poetry, prophetic promises, early Christian teaching, and the wisdom of Jesus. Together they offer a rich, varied picture of what love looks like in the life of two people who are promising themselves to one another.
Whether a couple wants something lyrical, grounded, or quietly profound, these passages offer words that can frame the beauty of their vows.
1. 1 Corinthians 13:4–8 — The Character of Love
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude… Love never ends.
2. Song of Solomon 8:6–7 — Love’s Strength and Devotion
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death…
3. Ruth 1:16–17 — A Love That Chooses Faithfulness
Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge… May the Lord do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you.
4. Romans 12:9–13 — Love in Action
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good… Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer.
5. Colossians 3:12–14 — Love That Binds Everything Together
As God’s chosen ones… clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience… Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
6. 1 John 4:7–12 — Love from God, Love for One Another
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God… No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us.
7. John 15:9–12 — Remaining in Love
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love… This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
