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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G26 — ἀγάπη
agapē · love · Greek
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Matthew 24:12 · ἀγάπηand because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;Luke 11:42 · ἀγάπην‘But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.John 5:42 · ἀγάπηνbut I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.John 13:35 · ἀγάπηνin this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.’John 15:9 · ἀγάπῃAccording as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;John 15:10 · ἀγάπῃ · ἀγάπῃ.¶if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;John 15:13 · ἀγάπηνgreater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;John 17:26 · ἀγάπηand I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.’Romans 5:5 · ἀγάπηand the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.Romans 5:8 · ἀγάπηνand God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;Romans 8:35 · ἀγάπηςWho shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Romans 8:39 · ἀγάπηςnor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 12:9 · ἀγάπηThe love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;Romans 13:10 · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπη.¶the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, is the fulness of law.Romans 14:15 · ἀγάπηνand if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.Romans 15:30 · ἀγάπηςAnd I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,1 Corinthians 4:21 · ἀγάπῃwhat do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?1 Corinthians 8:1 · ἀγάπηAnd concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;1 Corinthians 13:1 · ἀγάπηνIf with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;1 Corinthians 13:2 · ἀγάπηνand if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;1 Corinthians 13:3 · ἀγάπηνand if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.1 Corinthians 13:4 · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπηThe love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,1 Corinthians 13:8 · ἀγάπηThe love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;1 Corinthians 13:13 · ἀγάπη, · ἀγάπη.¶and now there doth remain faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest of these is love.1 Corinthians 14:1 · ἀγάπην·Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,1 Corinthians 16:14 · ἀγάπῃlet all your things be done in love.1 Corinthians 16:24 · ἀγάπηmy love is with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.2 Corinthians 2:4 · ἀγάπηνfor out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.2 Corinthians 2:8 · ἀγάπην.wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,2 Corinthians 5:14 · ἀγάπηfor the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,2 Corinthians 6:6 · ἀγάπῃin pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,2 Corinthians 8:7 · ἀγάπῃ,but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;2 Corinthians 8:8 · ἀγάπηςnot according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,2 Corinthians 8:24 · ἀγάπηςthe shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.2 Corinthians 13:11 · ἀγάπηςHenceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;2 Corinthians 13:13 · ἀγάπηsalute you do all the saints;Galatians 5:6 · ἀγάπηςfor in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.Galatians 5:13 · ἀγάπηςFor ye—to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,Galatians 5:22 · ἀγάπη,And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,Ephesians 1:4 · ἀγάπῃaccording as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,Ephesians 1:15 · ἀγάπηνBecause of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,Ephesians 2:4 · ἀγάπηνand God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,Ephesians 3:17 · ἀγάπῃthat the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,Ephesians 3:19 · ἀγάπηνto know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled—to all the fulness of God;Ephesians 4:2 · ἀγάπῃ,with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,Ephesians 4:15 · ἀγάπῃand, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head—the Christ;Ephesians 4:16 · ἀγάπῃ.¶from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.Ephesians 5:2 · ἀγάπῃand walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,Ephesians 6:23 · ἀγάπηPeace to the brethren, and love, with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!Philippians 1:9 · ἀγάπηand this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,Philippians 1:16 · ἀγάπηςthe one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,Philippians 2:1 · ἀγάπης,If, then, any exhortation is in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,Philippians 2:2 · ἀγάπηνfulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing—having the same love—of one soul—minding the one thing,Colossians 1:4 · ἀγάπηνhaving heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love that is to all the saints,Colossians 1:8 · ἀγάπηνwho also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.Colossians 1:13 · ἀγάπηςwho did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love,Colossians 2:2 · ἀγάπῃthat their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,Colossians 3:14 · ἀγάπην,and above all these things, have love, which is a bond of the perfection,1 Thessalonians 1:3 · ἀγάπηςunceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,1 Thessalonians 3:6 · ἀγάπηνAnd now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also to see you,1 Thessalonians 3:12 · ἀγάπῃand you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,1 Thessalonians 5:8 · ἀγάπηςand we, being of the day—let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet—a hope of salvation,1 Thessalonians 5:13 · ἀγάπῃand to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;2 Thessalonians 1:3 · ἀγάπηWe ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;2 Thessalonians 2:10 · ἀγάπηνand in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,2 Thessalonians 3:5 · ἀγάπηνand the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.1 Timothy 1:5 · ἀγάπηAnd the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,1 Timothy 1:14 · ἀγάπηςand exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus:1 Timothy 2:15 · ἀγάπῃand she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.1 Timothy 4:12 · ἀγάπῃlet no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;1 Timothy 6:11 · ἀγάπην,and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;2 Timothy 1:7 · ἀγάπηςfor God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;2 Timothy 1:13 · ἀγάπῃThe pattern hold thou of sound words, which from me thou didst hear, in faith and love that is in Christ Jesus;2 Timothy 2:22 · ἀγάπην,and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;2 Timothy 3:10 · ἀγάπῃ,And thou—thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,Titus 2:2 · ἀγάπῃ,aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;Philemon 1:5 · ἀγάπηνhearing of thy love and faith that thou hast unto the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,Philemon 1:7 · ἀγάπῃfor we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.Philemon 1:9 · ἀγάπηνbecause of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;Hebrews 6:10 · ἀγάπηςfor God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;Hebrews 10:24 · ἀγάπηςand may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,1 Peter 4:8 · ἀγάπην · ἀγάπηand, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;1 Peter 5:14 · ἀγάπης.Salute ye one another in a kiss of love; peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus! Amen.2 Peter 1:7 · ἀγάπην.and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;1 John 2:5 · ἀγάπηand whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.1 John 2:15 · ἀγάπηLove not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,1 John 3:1 · ἀγάπηνSee ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;1 John 3:16 · ἀγάπηνin this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;1 John 3:17 · ἀγάπηand whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him—how doth the love of God remain in him?1 John 4:7 · ἀγάπηBeloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;1 John 4:8 · ἀγάπηhe who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.1 John 4:9 · ἀγάπηIn this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son—the only begotten—hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;1 John 4:10 · ἀγάπη,in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.1 John 4:12 · ἀγάπηGod no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;1 John 4:16 · ἀγάπην · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπῃand we—we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.1 John 4:17 · ἀγάπηIn this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we—we also are in this world;1 John 4:18 · ἀγάπῃ, · ἀγάπη · ἀγάπῃ.fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;1 John 5:3 · ἀγάπηfor this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;2 John 1:3 · ἀγάπῃ.¶there shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.2 John 1:6 · ἀγάπηand this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,3 John 1:6 · ἀγάπῃwho did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,Jude 1:2 · ἀγάπηkindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!Jude 1:12 · ἀγάπαιςThese are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;Jude 1:21 · ἀγάπῃyourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ—to life age-during;Revelation 2:4 · ἀγάπην‘But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!Revelation 2:19 · ἀγάπηνI have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works—and the last are more than the first.