Love
Love
Love
1 Corinthians 13
16 Traits to Live By!
LOVE
and I show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:31
What is Love?
Mans definition Or Gods? The world cannot explain true love Songs, poems, paintings, sculptures, books, movies Shallow, confused, contradictory, inwardly focused, selfish Modern usage has cheapened the word even more
God Is Love!
(Who is love?)
1 John 4 Love is from God and is God (v 7-8, 16) His Love is perfected in us (v 12) Perfect Love casts out fear (v 18) A fruit of the Spirit is Love (Galatians 5:22)
Love is Necessary
Commanded by God
To be practiced by believers
Flows from the heart of Christians
Matthew 22:37-40
(Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Romans 13:8-10, James 2:8)
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.
John 3:16
(1 John 4:9)
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
1 John 3:16
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us;
and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God;
and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God
But
1 John 4:8
The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 3:14(b)
He who does not love abides in death.
Proverbs 18:19
An offended brother is more unyielding (harder to be won) than a fortified city
1 John 3:15
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer,
and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Love is Patient
1 Corinthians 13:4 makrothumeo to be even-tempered long-suffering, to bear long with
Love is Kind
1 Corinthians 13:4 chresteuomai To be kind, have a gentle spirit goodness & graciousness of heart
Prov. 19:22 Luke 6:35 Eph. 4:32
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1 Corinthians 13:13
But now abide
faith, hope, love these three but the greatest of these is
Love
LOVE