Christian Love Coloring Pages — Free Printable

Free Christian love coloring pages featuring 1 Corinthians 13, God loves you, the greatest commandment, and loving your neighbor scenes.

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Love coloring pages — 1 Corinthians 13, the greatest commandment, agapē

Love is the central virtue of Christian life. Jesus called it the great commandment ("Love the Lord your God... and love your neighbor as yourself" — Matthew 22:37-39). Paul ranked it the greatest of the three theological virtues ("the greatest of these is love" — 1 Corinthians 13:13). John identified it with God himself ("God is love" — 1 John 4:8). Across every layer of Christian scripture and tradition, love is the central command and the central reality.

This love section holds pages organized around the theme of Christian love: the 1 Corinthians 13 "love chapter," the greatest commandment, the various gospel scenes that illustrate love in action, and the symbolic depictions of God's love for humanity.

The Greek words for love

English uses one word ("love") for many distinct concepts. The Greek New Testament uses four:

Agapē

The dominant New Testament word for love — sacrificial, willed, intentional. The love God shows humanity. The love Jesus commands. The love Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 13. Agapē is not primarily a feeling but a chosen orientation toward another's good. This is the love at the center of Christian ethics.

Philia

Brotherly love, friendship love. The mutual affection between friends. Important in classical Greek thought (Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics devotes significant attention to philia), and present in the New Testament (the city of Philadelphia, "brotherly love").

Storge

Family love — the natural affection of parents for children, siblings for one another. Rarely used in the New Testament; more common in Greek philosophical literature.

Eros

Romantic and sexual love. Not used in the New Testament directly (other Greek words are used for marital love), but important in classical Greek and in Christian theological reflection on marriage.

Our adult-tier love content explores these distinctions; kids-tier content uses "love" inclusively.

The 1 Corinthians 13 love chapter

The single most-illustrated love passage in scripture. Paul's hymn to agapē love. The famous verses (4-8a):

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."

This passage is the most-requested wedding scripture in Western Christianity, and our wedding-themed verse coloring pages center on it. But it was originally written not for weddings but for a divided church (1 Corinthians) — a church that needed to be reminded that gifts and theological knowledge mean nothing without love.

For Sunday school use, we publish a 9-week "characteristics of love" series, one week per characteristic:

Patient (week 1)
Kind (week 2)
Does not envy (week 3)
Does not boast (week 4)
Is not arrogant or rude (week 5)
Does not insist on its own way (week 6)
Is not irritable or resentful (week 7)
Does not rejoice at wrongdoing (week 8)
Bears, believes, hopes, endures (week 9)

This 9-week love unit gives kids substantive engagement with each characteristic in turn.

The greatest commandment

Jesus' summary of the entire Law (Matthew 22:37-40):

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."

For Sunday school use, the "two great commandments" page is the visual anchor for catechetical introduction to Christian ethics. The point: every other moral command of the Bible is an application of these two.

Love in action — gospel scenes

Beyond the explicit love-teaching passages, the gospels are full of scenes where Jesus demonstrates love in action:

Jesus and the children (Matthew 19:13-15) — welcoming, blessing
The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) — love across enemy lines
The Prodigal Father (Luke 15:11-32) — extravagant forgiveness
Jesus washing the disciples' feet (John 13:1-17) — servant love
Mary anointing Jesus (Luke 7:36-50, John 12:1-8) — devoted love
The widow's mite (Mark 12:41-44) — sacrificial giving
Jesus weeping at Lazarus' tomb (John 11:35) — compassionate love

Our love-themed coloring pages draw on these scenes for kids' tier and adult devotional use.

God's love for humanity

The central theological claim of Christianity: God loves us first. John 3:16 ("For God so loved the world..."). 1 John 4:9-10 ("In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us"). Romans 5:8 ("God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us").

Our God's-love pages explore these passages with appropriate theological depth across age tiers.

Editorial standards for love content

Standard editorial policy applies. Three love-specific notes:

Theological breadth

We treat love as the central Christian virtue across all traditions — Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant. Some traditions emphasize specific aspects (Catholic emphasis on the corporal works of mercy; Reformed emphasis on God's electing love; Wesleyan emphasis on perfecting love). We publish content useful across these emphases.

Cultural sensitivity

"Love" in contemporary culture often means romantic feeling. Christian love — particularly agapē — is broader and more demanding. Our content draws this distinction without dismissing romantic love (which is itself a good gift, blessed in the wedding-at-Cana scene and celebrated in Song of Songs).

Sex and marriage

Christian sexual ethics are theologically complex and pastorally sensitive. We don't take positions on contested questions; we publish content focused on the biblical and traditional Christian teaching on love within marriage and chaste love outside marriage.

What's coming next for love content

Publishing priorities:

The 1 Corinthians 13 "love chapter" 9-week series — one characteristic per week
The corporal and spiritual works of mercy — for Catholic catechesis
Marriage and family love bundles — for marriage prep and family devotion
God's love through history — Old Testament covenant love through New Testament fulfillment

If you're teaching a love unit, email us.