Love in Scripture, Feb. 10, 2024

Love in Scripture. Expressions of genuine love often are subverted by hypocrisy.

And among the great trilogy of faith, hope, and love, one or more is often undermined by a simple lack of love.

One of the great Scriptures on love is 1 Corinthians 13:

13 If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² 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 do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Your love walk needs to start at home. Louise picks on her husband (the videographer for this video) for some lessons, on putting some furniture together, etc. Tests of true love!

Fileo and agape are two forms of love, explained by Louise. Agape love expects nothing in return.

Love says turn over to God the problems of loving people who have hurt you in some form or another, etc.

We also need to deal with jealousy. It can easily undermine your love walk.

Lover never boasts.

Love bears no malice.