These are a few examples:
1. Love means doing good to others
- Romans 13:10 says it in the reverse – “Love does no harm to a neighbor.” If you love someone, you will not try to hurt them. Rather, you will try to do what is good for them.
- Doing good includes meeting needs. I John 3:17 says, “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?”
2. Love means being kind
- I Corinthians 13:4 says “Love is kind.” This is a broad word that means tenderhearted, considerate, compassionate, gentle and merciful.
3. Love means sacrificing for others
- John says, “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers” – I John 3:16.
4. Love is longsuffering
- I Corinthians 13:4 says, “love is patient.” The word means longsuffering, which means able to suffer for a long time. I Corinthians 13:7 says “love bears all things.” Similarly I Corinthians 13:8 says, “love endures all things.”
5. Love forgives
- I Corinthians 13:5 says, “Love does not keep a record of wrongs.”
- I Peter 4:8 says, “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” To cover sins is another way of talking about forgiveness.
6. Love is shown through deeds
- True love is not about words, or feelings and intentions. As I John 3:18 says, “let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” True love is expressed in our actions of love for others.
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