Love (agape)

Original word

ἀγάπη

Transliteration

agape

Strong's

G26

The New Testament word for self-giving, committed love; it describes God's love for humanity and the love believers are called to show one another.

Concordance in this edition

• Ephesians 5:28 — Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
• 1 John 2:15 — Don’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 4:11 — Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
• Exodus 20:6 — and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
• Deuteronomy 5:10 — and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
• Deuteronomy 7:9 — Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
• Deuteronomy 10:15 — Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
• 2 Chronicles 9:8 — Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”
• Psalms 33:5 — He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
• Proverbs 8:17 — I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
• Proverbs 12:1 — Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
• Proverbs 17:19 — He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
• Song of Songs 1:4 — Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.
• Jeremiah 31:3 — Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.
• Daniel 9:4 — I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
• Hosea 3:1 — Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
• Matthew 5:46 — For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
• Luke 6:32 — If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
• Luke 7:47 — Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”
• John 15:9 — Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• John 17:26 — I 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 13:8 — Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
• Ephesians 2:4 — But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Ephesians 5:2 — Walk 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 6:24 — Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:9 — But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
• 2 Timothy 3:3 — without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
• 2 Timothy 3:4 — traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
• Titus 1:8 — but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
• James 2:5 — Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• 1 John 3:14 — We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
• 1 John 4:7 — Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
• 1 John 4:8 — He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
• 1 John 4:10 — 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 — No 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 5:1 — Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
• 3 John 1:1 — The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.
• Genesis 19:19 — See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
• Genesis 20:13 — When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
• Genesis 22:2 — He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
• Genesis 24:27 — He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
• Genesis 24:67 — Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
• Genesis 25:28 — Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
• Genesis 27:4 — Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
• Genesis 27:9 — Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
• Genesis 27:14 — He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
• Genesis 29:20 — Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
• Genesis 29:30 — He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
• Genesis 32:10 — I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
• Genesis 34:3 — His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
• Genesis 37:4 — His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
• Genesis 39:21 — But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
• Genesis 47:29 — The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
• Exodus 15:13 — “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
• Exodus 34:6 — Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Exodus 34:7 — keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
• Numbers 14:18 — ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
• Numbers 14:19 — Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
• Deuteronomy 4:37 — Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
• Deuteronomy 7:7 — Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

Bible references

• John 3:16
• 1 John 4:8
• 1 Corinthians 13:4

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