How Does Scripture Define Love?

We operate “love” for:

• Lust -using somebody for pleasure
• Addictions- obsessive, destructive desires
• Simple pleasures- e.g. “I dearest hamburgers”
• Sacrificial love- e.g. a godly woman raise
• Romantic love- shallow or deeply committed.

People who tell they "love" God, parents, husband or friends may accept nominal, selfish dearest or sacrificial, life-changing love.

Scripture explains genuine love:

♥ Agape – based on the virtue of the lover, non the worthiness of the loved one, equally God’s dearest for mankind. Unfortunately, the discussion “unconditional” (not constitute inwards Scripture) has replaced the discussion “agape” as well as promoted misunderstandings close God’s love.*

♥ 1 Corinthians 13 describes perfect human dearest - our goal.

♥ “Golden Rule love” - non necessarily based on affection or familiarity but on the Biblical truth that human beings are created inwards the ikon of God as well as should move treated fairly, justly, humanely. 

Let’s written report Scripture to acquire to a greater extent than close God's pure, perfect, Agape dearest as well as thus nosotros tin dismiss dearest God as well as others biblically (Matthew 22:36-40).

* See "God's Love is Better Than Unconditional"
* Scripture likewise uses 2 other adjectives for dearest phileo (brotherly love) as well as eros (sexual love).

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