Yes, the Bible has my favorite definitions on love... Of course, people of every kind have expressed beautiful descriptions of love as well! Love is everywhere when it is looked for... these following passages are just a few provisions of the beautiful picture that backgrounds all other love in this world:
Love is Passionate
Song of Solomon 8:6-7
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned. (NIV)
Love Requires All of You
Matthew 22:37–39
Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' (NKJV)
Love Lays Down
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (NIV)
Love Gives Value to Everything Else
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. (NIV)
Love is Unfailing
1 Corinthians 13:4–8a
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails ... (NIV)
Love Forgives Deeply
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. (NIV)
Love is Jesus
1 John 3:16
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. (NIV)
Love Acts in Truth
1 John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. (NIV)
Love is God
1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (NIV)
Aw yes! God is love :) one of my favorite Truths in all of Scripture... why? Well, because, love can be defined even more clearly when we know this truth- there are suddenly checks and balances to compare real love with... the mess of a definition that this world has put love into doesn't have to stay... Our contrast to the lies of love in this world are in the truth of who God is!
Praise The Lord! As undefinable as love often seems to be... Jesus has come... and therefore, love has been lived out on earth! Yes, Love itself has Lived on Earth :) and He is still alive and well today!!!
Such a beautiful reality! Love is Real :) just in case anyone was in doubt...
Love is God and we are nothing without Him! Just as we are nothing without love! In the Bible it is clear that knowing God and living out love go hand in hand!
How lovely it is to think on Love!
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