2. but the greatest of these is love
I Corinthian 13:13

3. 4 Greek Words Translated Love
1. eros (erotic, lust)
- not found in NT
- 1x in LXX, OT - Proverbs 7:18
2. sterge (natural affection)
- family, love of parent for a child
- unloving (Rom 1:31; 2 Tim 3:3)

4. 4 Greek Words Translated Love
3. phileo (warm, friendly affection)
- love between good friends
- emotional, tender
4. agape (highest, sacrificial love)
- 117x in NT (NASB)
- an act of will, not emotion
- no matter who you are/what’s done

5. Agape - Love God’s love for man (Jn.3:16)
Man’s love for God (I Jn.5:3)
Christ’s love for the church (Eph.5:25)
Husband’s love for his wife (Eph.5:25)
Christian’s love for Christians (I Pt.1:22)
Christian’s love for neighbor (Mat.22:39)
Christian’s love for enemies (Mat.5:44)

6. Agape - Love I Corinthians 13:4-8a v. 4 “patient” (suffereth long)
“kind” (gentle in behavior)
“not jealous” (envieth not)
“does not brag” (does not parade itself)
“not arrogant” (not puffed up)

7. Agape - Love I Corinthians 13:4-8a v. 5
“does not act unbecomingly” (behave rudely)
“does not seek its own”
“is not provoked” (not easily provoked)
“does not take into account a wrong” (thinketh no evil)

8. Agape - Love I Corinthians 13:4-8a v. 6
“does not rejoice in unrighteousness” (rejoiceth not in iniquity)
“rejoices with the truth” (in the truth)
putting God first

9. Agape - Love I Corinthians 13:4-8a v. 7 “bears all things”
“believes all things”
“hopes all things”
“endures all things”
trust
commitment

10. Agape - Love I Corinthians 13:4-8a v. 8a never ends “love never fails”
lasts forever
survives everything
I Corinthians 13:13
“faith, hope, love…the greatest of these is love.”
I Corinthians 14:1
“Pursue love”

11. Agape - Love
John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

12. Agape - Love
Romans 13:8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law Love does no wrong to a neighbor; love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

13. Agape - Love
I Thess.4:9 Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
10 for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,

14. Agape - Love
I Peter 1:22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,