What does the Bible
say about LOVE?
Source:
Meredith's Big Book of Bible Lists
Meredith
starts his chapter about LOVE this way:
"Divine love, what the Greeks call
"agape", is another matter. With His infinite
precision, God has told us clearly what His love -- real
love -- is, and isn't."
Who
is LOVE?
God is
love. (1 John 4:8 & 16)
Eleven
Descriptions of Love:
1.
Love is a commandment. (John 13:34)
2. Love is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. (Rom 5:5)
3. Love is the fulfilling of the law. (Rom 13:10)
4. Love is the catalyst that gives meaning to speaking in
tongues, to prophesying, to understanding, to faith, to
charitable works, and to self-sacrifice. (1 Cor 13:1-3)
5. Love is kind. (1 Cor 13:4)
6. Love is greater than faith. (1 Cor 13:13)
7. Love is greater than hope. (1 Cor 13:13)
8. Love is the fruit of the Spirit. (Gal 5:22)
9. Love is the bond of perfectness. (Col 3:14)
10. Love is of God. (1 John 4:7)
11. Love is living according to God's commandments. (2 John 6)
Ten
Things which cannot Separate Us
from the Love of God:
1.
Death cannot separate us from the love of God. (Rom 8:38)
2. Life cannot separate us from the love of God. (Rom 8:38)
3. Angels cannot separate us from the love of God. (Rom 8:38)
4. Principalities cannot separate us from the love of
God. (Rom 8:38)
5. Powers cannot separate us from the love of God. (Rom 8:38)
6. Things present cannot separate us from the love of
God. (Rom 8:38)
7. Things to come cannot separate us from the love of
God. (Rom 8:38)
8. Height cannot separate us from the love of God. (Rom 8:39)
9. Depth cannot separate us from the love of God. (Rom 8:39)
10. No other creature can separate us from the love of
God. (Rom 8:39)
Nine
Things that Love Does:
1.
Love suffers long. (1 Cor 13:4)
2. Love rejoices in truth. (1 Cor 13:6)
3. Love bears all things. (1 Cor 13:7)
4. Love believes all things. (1 Cor 13:7)
5. Love hopes all things. (1 Cor 13:7)
6. Love endures all things. (1 Cor 13:7)
7. Love abides now. (1 Cor 13:13)
8. Love covers a multitude of sins. (1 Pet 4:8)
9. Perfect love casts out fear. (1 John 4:18)
Three
Things that Love is Not:
1.
Love is not envious. (1 Cor 13:4)
2. Love is not puffed up. (1 Cor 13:4)
3. Love is not easily provoked. (1 Cor 13:5)
Seven
Things that Love Does Not Do:
1.
Love does not vaunt itself. (1 Cor 13:4)
2. Love does not behave unseemly. (1 Cor 13:5)
3. Love does not seek its own. (1 Cor 13:5)
4. Love thinks no evil. (1 Cor 13:5)
5. Love does not rejoice in iniquity. (1 Cor 13:6)
6. Love never fails. (1 Cor 13:8)
7. Love works no ill to his neighbor. (Romans 13:10)
Source:
Meredith's Big Book of Bible Lists
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