What does the
Bible say about LOVE?
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) 
