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							                                                            A STUDY OF “LOVE”
                                              Love – used 311 times in 281 verses in Scripture
                Strongs # G25                                      Strongs # G5368                                    Strongs # G26
          agapao - (ag-ap-ah'-o)                                  phileo -(fil-eh'-o)                            agape - (ag-ah'-pay)
   to love (in a social or moral sense)                 to be a friend to [an individual or an           love, that is, affection or
                                                        object], that is, have affection for            benevolence; a love feast


                                                                    What is Love?
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love (agape), joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, - LOVE IS A
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

2Ti 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love (agape), and of a sound mind. – LOVE IS A
STATE OF MIND

Joh 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love (agapao) one another; as I have loved (agapao) you, that ye also
love (agapao) one another.
Joh 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love (agape) one to another. – LOVE IS AN
IDENTIFYING TRAIT OF GODs PEOPLE
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Suffereth Long – G3114 makrothumeo From the same as G3116; to be long spirited, that is, (objectively) forbearing or
(subjectively) patient: - bear (suffer) long, be longsuffering, have (long) patience, be patient, patiently endure.
                      G3114=[patience, bear long, suffereth long, patiently endured, long patience]
G3115 (longsuffering) makrothumia:
1) patience, endurance, constancy, steadfastness, perseverance
2) patience, forbearance, longsuffering, slowness in avenging wrongs

1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,
wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

Eph 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love
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Is Kind – G5541 chresteuomai to show oneself useful, that is, act benevolently: - be kind.
                                            [this scripture is the only time G5541 is used in the NT]
G5543 (kind) chrestos
From G5530; employed, that is, (by implication) useful (in manner or morals): - better, easy, good (-ness), gracious, kind.


Luk 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the
children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Eph 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
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Envieth Not – G2206 zeloo                  to have warmth of feeling for or against: - affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be
jealous over, (be) zealous (-ly affect).
                                     G2205=[covet earnestly, desire, covet, jealous, zealously affect]
G5355 (envy) phthonos
Probably akin to the base of G5351; ill will (as detraction), that is, jealousy (spite): - envy.

Pro 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Mar 15:10 For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
Vaunteth Not Itself - G4068 perpereuomai (braggart; perhaps by reduplication of the base of G4008); to boast: - vaunt itself.
                                            [this scripture is the only time G4068 is used in the NT]
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G2744 (boast) kauchaomai (to boast); to vaunt (in a good or a bad sense): - (make) boast, glory, joy, rejoice.

2Co 9:2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and
your zeal hath provoked very many.

Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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Is Not Puffed Up - G5448 phusioo - in the primary sense of blowing; to inflate, that is, (figuratively) make proud (haughty): - puff
up.
                                    [G5448 - this greek word is always translated “puffed up” in the NT]
1Co 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
Psa 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Pro 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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Doth Not Behave Itself Unseemly - G807 aschemoneo to be (that is, act) unbecoming: - behave self uncomely (unseemly).
                                                                [G807 – uncomely]
G808 (unseemly) aschemosune - an indecency; by implication the pudenda: - shame, that which is unseemly.

Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward
another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error
which was meet.
                                      (Acts 5:annanias and saphira; lied, conspired together ahead of time)
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Seeketh Not Her Own - G1438 heautou                        him (her, it, them, also [in conjunction with the personal pronoun of the other persons]
my, thy, our, your) -self (-selves), etc.: - alone, her (own, -self), (he) himself, his (own), itself, one (to) another, our (thine) own (-selves), +
that she had, their (own, own selves), (of) them (-selves), they, thyself, you, your (own, own conceits, own selves, -selves).
                                      G1438 [yourselves, itself, their, themselves, herself, himself]
Phi 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Phi 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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Is Not Easily Provoked - G3947 paroxuno to sharpen alongside, that is, (figuratively) to exasperate: - easily
provoke, stir.
                                                              [G3947 – stirred]
G2042 (provoke) erethizo - From a presumed prolonged form of G2054; to stimulate (especially to anger): - provoke.
Col 3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
G3948 (provoke) paroxusmos - (“paroxysm”); incitement (to good), or dispute (in anger): - contention, provoke unto.
Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
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Thinketh No Evil - G3049 logizomai              to take an inventory, that is, estimate (literally or figuratively): - conclude, (ac-) count (of), +
despise, esteem, impute, lay, number, reason, reckon, suppose, think (on).

G2556 kakos worthless that is, (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious: - bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.
                                    [G2556 – wicked men, evil things, harm, ill, bad, noisome]
Rom 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Act 9:13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
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Rejoiceth Not In Iniquity - G93 adikia (legal) injustice (properly the quality, by implication the act); moral wrongfulness (of
charater, life or act): - iniquity, unjust, unrighteousness, wrong.

                                                [G93 – unjust, unrighteousness, wrong]
Act 1:18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels
gushed out.
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Act 8:23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
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Rejoiceth In The Truth - G225 aletheia                    truth: - true, X truly, truth, verity.


                                                            [G225 – truly, true, verity]
Mar 5:33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full
of grace and truth.
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Beareth All Things - G4722 stego                to roof over, that is, (figuratively) to cover with silence (endure patiently): bear, suffer.
                                                         [G4722 – suffer, forbear]
1Th 3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
1Th 3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our
labor be in vain.
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Believeth All Things - G4100 pisteuo               to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; by implication to
entrust (especially one’s spiritual well being to Christ): - believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with.


                     [G4100 – believe, believing, believed, believest, trust, commit, made, believers, committed]
Mat 8:23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him,
Mat 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this?
    They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
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Hopeth All Things - G1679 elpizo               to expect or confide: - (have, thing) hope (-d) (for), trust.
                                                             [G1679 - trust]
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
2Co 1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
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Endureth All Things - G5278 hupomeno                    to stay under (behind), that is, remain; figuratively to undergo, that is, bear (trials),
have fortitude, persevere: - abide, endure, (take) patient (-ly), suffer, tarry behind.
                                               [G5278 – patient, suffer, endure, patiently]
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Mat 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
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Never Faileth - G1601 ekpipto               to drop away; specifically be driven out of one’s course; figuratively to lose, become inefficient: - be
cast, fail, fall (away, off), take none effect.
                                         [G1601 – fall, fell off, cast, fallen, none effect, falleth away]
1Pe 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
2Pe 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall
    from your own steadfastness.

                                                                      Isaiah 53




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