What does the Bible say about falling in love?

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• 1 John 4:18

  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

• 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

  [1] If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. [2] If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. [3] If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. [4] Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, [5] doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; [6] doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; [7] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [8] Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; [10] but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. [11] When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. [12] For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. [13] But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.

• Psalms 85:10

  Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

• Proverbs 18:22

  Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor of Yahweh.

• Revelation 2:4

  But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

• Mark 11:24-25

  [24] Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. [25] Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

• Song of Solomon 8:6-7

  [6] Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yahweh. [7] Many waters can't quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, He would be utterly scorned. Friends

• Proverbs 19:14

  House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

• Genesis 2:18-25

  [18] Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." [19] Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. [20] The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him. [21] Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. [22] He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man. [23] The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." [24] Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. [25] They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

• 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

  [19] Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, [20] for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

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