Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
- english word – Love
- english dictionary definition –
noun
1. an intense feeling of deep affection.
2. a great interest and pleasure in something
verb
1. feel deep affection for someone
2. like or enjoy very much
- Greek word – Agape (ἀγάπη) – love, charity, dear, charitably, feast of charity –
strong’s # 26
biblical definition –
In Unger’s bible dictionary – it calls Love “an attribute of god.”
Bible study tools –
https://www.biblestudytools.com/encyclopedias/isbe/love.html
in the bible –
verses
1 corinthians 13:4-8 (NKJV)
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 love never fails. but whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
1 corinthians 13:4-8 (ESV)
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 John 4:7-19 (NKJV)
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
John 14:15 (NKJV)
15 If you love me, keep My commandments.