agape love
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8Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
34I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another. 35By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another.”
13No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
7Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.
18Fear is not in love. Instead, perfect love casts out fear, for fear pertains to punishment. And whoever fears is not perfected in love.
15If you love me, keep my commandments.
7Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
10In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.
21Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them: it is he who loves me. And whoever loves me shall be loved by my Father. And I will love him, and I will manifest myself to him.”
15Then, when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16He said to him again: “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 17He said to him a third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was very grieved that he had asked him a third time, “Do you love me?” And so he said to him: “Lord, you know all things. You know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my sheep.
4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.
27In response, he said: “You shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from all your strength, and from all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and because you have believed that I went forth from God.