What Is Agape Love?
Agape love is the highest form of love that exists. It is unconditional, selfless, and forgiving. Agape love is the type of love that God has for us. It is also the type of love that we should have for others.
Agape love is not based on how the other person treats us. It is not based on whether or not the other person loves us back. Agape love is given freely and unconditionally, no matter what.
Agape love is sacrificial. It puts the needs of others above our own. Agape love is often called “unconditional love.” This means that it does not depend on anything in return. Agape love is not a feeling; it is a decision to love someone no matter what.
Agape love is also forgiving. It does not keep track of wrongs that have been done to us. Agape love chooses to forgive and forget. This does not mean that we condone the wrong that was done. It simply means that we choose to release the person from the debt they owe us.
Agape love is also selfless. It is not about getting something in return. Agape love is about giving without expecting anything in return. It is about meeting the needs of others, even when it is not convenient for us.
Agape love is the highest form of love because it goes against our human nature. Our human nature is selfish and desires to be loved in return. But agape love is not about what we can get; it is about what we can give. When we love unconditionally, we are living out the true meaning of love.
How Can We Show Agape Love?
We can show agape love by our actions. We can choose to forgive instead of holding a grudge. We can choose to put the needs of others above our own. We can choose to help those in need, even when it is not convenient for us.
When we live out agape love, we are reflecting the love of God. We are showing others that we care about them and that we are willing to sacrifice our own needs for theirs. When we love unconditionally, we are living out the true meaning of love.
What Does Bible Say About Agape Love?
The Bible speaks about agape love in many different ways. Agape love is the highest form of love, and it is a love that is unconditional and selfless. Agape love is the type of love that God has for us, and it is a love that is always there, no matter what.
The Bible tells us that agape love is patient and kind. It does not envy or boast. It is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its way. It is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Agape love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Agape love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV
This passage from 1 Corinthians 13 is often called the “love chapter” because it so beautifully describes what agape love looks like. We see here that agape love is not just a feeling or an emotion. Rather, it is a decision to love others selflessly and unconditionally, no matter what the cost.
Agape love is the type of love that we are called to have for one another. It is a love that is not based on anything that the other person does or does not do. Rather, it is a love that is given freely and unconditionally.
When we choose to love others with agape love, we are choosing to see them as God sees them. We are choosing to see their potential and their worth, no matter what they may have done in the past. We are choosing to forgive them, just as God has forgiven us.
Agape love is a powerful force in the world, and it is something that we are all called to share with others. When we love others with agape love, we are reflecting the love of God to them. We are showing them that they are valuable and worth fighting for. We are giving them a glimpse of the hope and the future that God has for them.
Bible Verses About Agape Love
1. 1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
2. 1 Thessalonians 3:6
But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
3. Romans 8:39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
4. 2 Timothy 1:7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
5. Romans 14:15
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
6. 1 John 3:16
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
7. Ephesians 1:15
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
8. 1 John 2:5
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
9. 3 John 1:6
Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
10. 1 Timothy 6:11
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
11. 1 Corinthians 13:8
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
12. 2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
13. 1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
14. 2 John 1:6
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
15. Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
16. Romans 13:10
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
17. 1 John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
18. 1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
19. Philemon 1:9
Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
20. John 17:26
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
21. Ephesians 4:2
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
22. 1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
23. Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
24. Philemon 1:7
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
25. 2 Timothy 1:13
Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
26. 1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
27. Colossians 2:2
That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
28. John 15:9
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
29. 1 John 3:17
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
30. Romans 15:30
Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
31. Philemon 1:5
Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
32. Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
33. Jude 1:2
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
34. Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
35. 2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
36. 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
37. 1 John 4:9
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
38. Luke 11:42
But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
39. Galatians 5:6
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
40. 1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
41. 1 Timothy 1:14
And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
42. John 5:42
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
43. Colossians 1:8
Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
44. 1 Timothy 2:15
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
45. 2 Peter 1:7
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
46. Ephesians 2:4
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
47. Ephesians 3:19
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
48. Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
49. Ephesians 3:17
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
50. 1 Thessalonians 5:13
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
51. John 13:35
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
52. 1 Peter 4:8
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
53. 1 John 4:12
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
54. 1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
55. 2 John 1:3
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
56. Romans 5:5
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
57. 1 John 4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
58. Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
59. Colossians 3:14
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
60. Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
61. 2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
62. 2 Timothy 3:10
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
63. 1 Timothy 1:5
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
64. Ephesians 4:16
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
65. Ephesians 4:15
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
66. Colossians 1:13
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
67. 1 John 4:17
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
68. 1 Thessalonians 1:3
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
69. Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
70. 1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
71. 2 Thessalonians 3:5
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
72. John 15:10
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
73. Revelation 2:19
I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
74. Ephesians 6:23
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
75. Colossians 1:4
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
76. Revelation 2:4
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
77. 1 Peter 5:14
Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
78. Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
79. John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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