Agape love

16 characteristics of agape love:

 

1. Patient (unconditional) – even-tempered while enduring trying circumstances.

2. Kind (Compassionate) – warmhearted, considerate, gentle, and sympathetic.

3. Not envious – not desirous of other's advantages.

4. Not boastful – does not exhibit self-importance.

5. Not arrogant – not haughty or conceived as being puffed up.

6. Not rude – not behave dishonorably but in accepted social standards.

7. Not self-absorbed – does not reach for personal desires.

8. Not irritable – not stirred up emotionally to act negatively.

9. Not resentful – not exhibit morally objectional behavior.

10. Does not celebrate wrongs – does not keep a tally of one's sins.

11. Rejoices in Truth – feels happiness and joy in uprightness.

12. Bears all things – endures the pleasant and the unpleasant.

13. Believes all things – applies trust in something.

14. Hopes in all things – expects and wishes.

15. Endures all things – withstands everything in courage.

16. Never fails – wins, does not suffer defeat.

 

Love doesn't always carry the biblical meaning, but if it's carried out the right way, its meaning is almost biblical, like the U2 song "40."

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