ἀγάπη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX for אַהֲבָה, which is also rendered by ἀγάπησις and φιλία ;] love, goodwill, esteem. Outside of bibl. and eccl. books, there is no clear instance (with Deiss., LAE, 18:4, 70:2, cf. the same writer in Constr. Quar., ii, 4; and with MM, VGT, see word, cf. Dr. Moulton in Exp. Times, xxvi, 3, 139). In NT, like ἀγαπάω, -ῶ, 1. Of men's love: (a) to one another, Jhn.13:35; (b) to God, 1Jn.2:5. 2. Of divine love; (a) God's love: to men, Rom.5:8; to Christ, Jhn.17:26; (b) Christ's love to men: Rom.8:35. 3. In pl., love feasts: Ju 12 (DB, iii, 157). SYN.: φιλία. ἀ., signifying properly (see: ἀγαπάω) love which chooses its object, is taken over from LXX, where its connotation is more general, into NT, and there used exclusively to express that spiritual bond of love between God and man and between man and man, in Christ, which is characteristic of Christianity. It is thusdistinct from φιλία, friendship (Jas.4:4 only), στοργή, natural affection (in NT only in compounds, see: ἄστοργος) and ἔρως, sexual love, which is not used in NT, its place being taken by ἐπιθυμία. (Cf. ἀγαπάω; and see Abbott, Essays, 70f.; DB, vol. i., 555; Cremer, 13, 593; MM, VGT, see word). (AS)
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agapē · love · Greek
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Matthew 24:12 · ἀγάπηBecause iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.Luke 11:42 · ἀγάπηνBut woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.John 5:42 · ἀγάπηνBut I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.John 13:35 · ἀγάπηνBy this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”John 15:9 · ἀγάπῃEven as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.John 15:10 · ἀγάπῃ · ἀγάπῃ.¶If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.John 15:13 · ἀγάπηνGreater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.John 17:26 · ἀγάπηI made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”Romans 5:5 · ἀγάπηand hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.Romans 5:8 · ἀγάπηνBut God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.Romans 8:35 · ἀγάπηςWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Romans 8:39 · ἀγάπηςnor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 12:9 · ἀγάπηLet love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.Romans 13:10 · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπη.¶Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.Romans 14:15 · ἀγάπηνYet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.Romans 15:30 · ἀγάπηςNow I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,1 Corinthians 4:21 · ἀγάπῃWhat do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?1 Corinthians 8:1 · ἀγάπηNow concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.1 Corinthians 13:1 · ἀγάπηνIf I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.1 Corinthians 13:2 · ἀγάπηνIf I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.1 Corinthians 13:3 · ἀγάπηνIf I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.1 Corinthians 13:4 · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπηLove is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,1 Corinthians 13:8 · ἀγάπηLove never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.1 Corinthians 13:13 · ἀγάπη, · ἀγάπη.¶But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.1 Corinthians 14:1 · ἀγάπην·Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.1 Corinthians 16:14 · ἀγάπῃLet all that you do be done in love.1 Corinthians 16:24 · ἀγάπηMy love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.2 Corinthians 2:4 · ἀγάπηνFor out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.2 Corinthians 2:8 · ἀγάπην.Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.2 Corinthians 5:14 · ἀγάπηFor the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.2 Corinthians 6:6 · ἀγάπῃin pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,2 Corinthians 8:7 · ἀγάπῃ,But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.2 Corinthians 8:8 · ἀγάπηςI speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.2 Corinthians 8:24 · ἀγάπηςTherefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.2 Corinthians 13:11 · ἀγάπηςFinally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.2 Corinthians 13:13 · ἀγάπηAll the saints greet you.Galatians 5:6 · ἀγάπηςFor in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.Galatians 5:13 · ἀγάπηςFor you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.Galatians 5:22 · ἀγάπη,But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,Ephesians 1:4 · ἀγάπῃeven as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;Ephesians 1:15 · ἀγάπηνFor this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,Ephesians 2:4 · ἀγάπηνBut God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,Ephesians 3:17 · ἀγάπῃthat Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,Ephesians 3:19 · ἀγάπηνand to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.Ephesians 4:2 · ἀγάπῃ,with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;Ephesians 4:15 · ἀγάπῃbut speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;Ephesians 4:16 · ἀγάπῃ.¶from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.Ephesians 5:2 · ἀγάπῃWalk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.Ephesians 6:23 · ἀγάπηPeace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Philippians 1:9 · ἀγάπηThis I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;Philippians 1:16 · ἀγάπηςThe former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;Philippians 2:1 · ἀγάπης,If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,Philippians 2:2 · ἀγάπηνmake my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;Colossians 1:4 · ἀγάπηνhaving heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,Colossians 1:8 · ἀγάπηνwho also declared to us your love in the Spirit.Colossians 1:13 · ἀγάπηςwho delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;Colossians 2:2 · ἀγάπῃthat their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,Colossians 3:14 · ἀγάπην,Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.1 Thessalonians 1:3 · ἀγάπηςremembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.1 Thessalonians 3:6 · ἀγάπηνBut when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;1 Thessalonians 3:12 · ἀγάπῃand the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,1 Thessalonians 5:8 · ἀγάπηςBut let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.1 Thessalonians 5:13 · ἀγάπῃand to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.2 Thessalonians 1:3 · ἀγάπηWe are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;2 Thessalonians 2:10 · ἀγάπηνand with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.2 Thessalonians 3:5 · ἀγάπηνMay the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.1 Timothy 1:5 · ἀγάπηbut the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;1 Timothy 1:14 · ἀγάπηςThe grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.1 Timothy 2:15 · ἀγάπῃbut she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.1 Timothy 4:12 · ἀγάπῃLet no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.1 Timothy 6:11 · ἀγάπην,But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.2 Timothy 1:7 · ἀγάπηςFor God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.2 Timothy 1:13 · ἀγάπῃHold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.2 Timothy 2:22 · ἀγάπην,Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.2 Timothy 3:10 · ἀγάπῃ,But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,Titus 2:2 · ἀγάπῃ,that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:Philemon 1:5 · ἀγάπηνhearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;Philemon 1:7 · ἀγάπῃFor we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.Philemon 1:9 · ἀγάπηνyet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.Hebrews 6:10 · ἀγάπηςFor God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.Hebrews 10:24 · ἀγάπηςLet us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,1 Peter 4:8 · ἀγάπην · ἀγάπηAnd above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.1 Peter 5:14 · ἀγάπης.Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.2 Peter 1:7 · ἀγάπην.and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.1 John 2:5 · ἀγάπηBut whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:1 John 2:15 · ἀγάπηDon’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.1 John 3:1 · ἀγάπηνBehold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.1 John 3:16 · ἀγάπηνBy this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.1 John 3:17 · ἀγάπηBut whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?1 John 4:7 · ἀγάπηBeloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.1 John 4:8 · ἀγάπηHe who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.1 John 4:9 · ἀγάπηBy this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.1 John 4:10 · ἀγάπη,In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.1 John 4:12 · ἀγάπηNo one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.1 John 4:16 · ἀγάπην · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπῃWe know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.1 John 4:17 · ἀγάπηIn this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.1 John 4:18 · ἀγάπῃ, · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπῃ.There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.1 John 5:3 · ἀγάπηFor this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.2 John 1:3 · ἀγάπῃ.¶Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.2 John 1:6 · ἀγάπηThis is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.3 John 1:6 · ἀγάπῃThey have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,Jude 1:2 · ἀγάπηMercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.Jude 1:12 · ἀγάπαιςThese are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;Jude 1:21 · ἀγάπῃKeep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.Revelation 2:4 · ἀγάπηνBut I have this against you, that you left your first love.Revelation 2:19 · ἀγάπην“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.