__NOTOC__{{quote | text=Jesus said: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." {{Bible verse|matthew|22|37|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|matthew|22|38|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|matthew|22|39|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|matthew|22|40|lang=WEB}} [[Matthew 22]]:37-40}}{{Infobox_Contents | topic_name ==Synopsis== In [[First Corinthians]] we are told that love is patient and love is kind; that it does not envy, or boast and isn't proud; love isn't rude or self-seeking or easily angered; it doesn't keep a record of wrongs; love always protects, it always trusts, always hopes and always perseveres; it never fails. [[God]] has a character of complete love and he calls us to love like he does.Love | subtopics ==Contents== {{topics}}* [[God is love]]
* [[Translating love]] | [[Philia]] | [[Eros]] | [[Agape]] | [[Storge]]
* [[Mercy]] | [[Forgiveness]] | [[Grace]]
* Bible passages - [[1 Corinthians 13]]| opinion_pieces = {{opinionsshort_opinions}}
* [[Who do you love? A study of John 21:15-17 (carm)]]
* Sermon: [[Luke 10 - What is love? (G.G.)]]|}}
{{quotes}} ==Main article== '''Love ''' is a word that is hard to define. In [[First Corinthians]] we are told that love is patient and love is kind; that it does not envy, or boast and isn't proud; love isn't rude or self-seeking or easily angered; it doesn't keep a record of wrongs; love always protects, it always trusts, always hopes and always perseveres; it never fails. [[God]] has a character of complete love and he calls us to love like he does.
===Love in the Bible===
====[[Translating love]]====
In the New Testament, the word love has been translated from three different [[Koine Greek]] words: [[philia]], [[agape]] and [[storge]]. Philia is often used to describe the brotherly love of friendship. Agape' is often used to describe the love of choice of the mind - it is that is unconditional, and limitless, unbounded. And storge is often used for the the natural affection of families.
====Loving each other====
Jesus said that the second great commandment was that we love our neighbours as ourselves. The account is found in [[Luke 10]]:25-27 just before Jesus tells the story of [[The Good Samaritan]].
: <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[Luke {{Bible verse|luke|10:|25|25]]</font color></small></span> Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" <span idlang='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[Luke WEB}} {{Bible verse|luke|10:|26|26]]</font color></small></span> He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" <span idlang='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[Luke WEB}} {{Bible verse|luke|10:|27|27]]</font color></small></span> He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."lang=WEB}}''
Later, in the [[Gospel of John]], Jesus says
: Greater love has no man than this - that he lay down his life for his friend. ''{{Bible verse|John|15|13|lang=WEB}}'' ([[John 15:13]])
Jesus shows us this love when he lay down his life for us.
Perhaps the most famous Bible passage about love comes from [[1 Corinthians 13]]
: <span id='3_1'><small><font color{{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|1|lang=#0000FF>[[WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians |13:|2|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1Corinthians|13|3|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1]]</font color></small></span> If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but donCorinthians|13|4|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|5|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|6|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|7|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|8|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|9|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|10|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|11|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|12|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|1 Corinthians|13|13|lang=WEB}}''t have [[love]], I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
: <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:2|2]]</font color></small></span> If I have the gift =Stories 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.in church history===
: <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:3|3]]</font color></small></span> If I give 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.{{stub}}
: <span id='3_1'>=Video==<smallYouTube><font colortitle=A Depiction of The Love of God!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjSio8jur2Y&rel=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13embed_source_url=http:4|4]]</font color></small>www.youtube.com/v/BjSio8jur2Y&rel=1wrap = yeswidth=500height=400</spanYouTube> Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
: <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:5|5]]</font color></small></span> Love does not behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;Quotes==
: <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:6|6]]</font color></small></span> Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; : <span id=The Beatles'3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:7|7]]</font color></small></span> Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. : <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:8|8]]</font color></small></span> Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there All you need is knowledge, it will be done away with. : <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:9|9]]</font color></small></span> For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; : <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:10|10]]</font color></small></span> But when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. : <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:11|11]]</font color></small></span> 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. : <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:12|12]]</font color></small></span> 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. : <span id='3_1'><small><font color=#0000FF>[[1 Corinthians 13:13|13]]</font color></small></span> But now faith, [[hope]], and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love. ===Stories of love in church history===
==Links==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love Wikipedia - Love]
* [http://www.wikichristian.org/index.php?title=Luke_10_%28overview%29&redirect=no Sermon - Luke 10 - What is love?]
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