What Is Love?

"You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you... For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?"   Matthew 5:43-44, 46


"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these." Mark 12:30-31


"Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold."  Matthew 24:12


"I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."  John13:34-35


"Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good. Show family affection to one another with brotherly love. Outdo one another in showing honor."  Romans 12:9-10


"Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law." Romans 13:10


"Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."  1 Corinthians 13:13


"But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head -- Christ. From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part."  Ephesians 4:15-16


"Above all, [put on] love -- the perfect bond of unity."  Colossians 3:14


"And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment, "  Philippians 1:9


"And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone, just as we also do for you. "  1 Thessalonians 3:12


"Above all, keep your love for one another at full strength, since love covers a multitude of sins. "  1 Peter 4:8


"This is how God's children -- and the Devil's children -- are made evident.Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother."   1 John 3:10


"Little children, we must not love in word or speech, but in deed and truth;"  1 John 3:18


"We love because He first loved us." 1 John 4:19


All these are to remind us to pray we will hear this: 
"I know your works -- your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance. Your last works are greater than the first." Revelation 2:19 


...and not this.  
 "But I have this against you: you have abandoned the love [you had] at first." Revelation 2:4