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Love in English means:

• Strong affection
• Warm attachment
• attraction based on Sexual desire
• unselfish Loyal and benevolent Concern for others
• to take pleasure in & caress: Cherish
• to feel a passion, devotion pleasure in

Bad

• John 12:43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
  • Love man more that God
• I Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Ezekiel 23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
  • Loving on Bed in wrong relationships
    

Good

• I Timothy 6:11  But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
  • God’s Love
  • This is the love talked about in Galatians 5:22.
• John 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
  • God Loved until the end
  • Strong’s G25 – agapaō
    • of persons
      • to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly
    • of things
      • to be well pleased, to be contented at or with a thing
• John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
  • God Loved the world.
  • This love is the same Greek word that is used in John 13:1.
• Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
  • Love One another
  • This love is the same Greek word that is used in John 13:1.
• I 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.
  • Love bestowed on us
  • This is the love talked about in Galatians 5:22.
• I John 4:16-21 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. 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. 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. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
  • This is the good kind of love.
    • We see in this passage that God loves us.
    • Where true love is, there is no fear.
    • All who truly love God will also love others.
  • This passage uses both Strong’s G26 and Strong’s G25.
    • Verses 16-18 is the G26
    • Verses 19-21 uses G25
• John 5:1-4 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
  • Love causes us to keep the commandments of God
• I Peter 4: 8-9  And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
  • Charity is another translation of Strong’s G26.
  • one to another
• I Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
  • “Love of the brethren” is a phrase in English. In Greek this was basically 1 word.
    • Strong’s G5360 – philadelphia
      • φιλαδελφία philadelphía, fil-ad-el-fee’-ah; from G5361; fraternal affection:—brotherly love (kindness), love of the brethren.
• Hebrews 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
  • Brotherly Love
  • Strong’s G5360 – philadelphia
• Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
  •  Strong’s G26 – agapē