Some, though, have the wrong idea about a·Gaʹpe.
Indeed, Christians enjoy‘ love( a·Gaʹpe) without hypocrisy.
A·Gaʹpe can also include deep feeling.
What is a·Gaʹpe, and how is such love shown?
This love( Greek, a·Gaʹpe) consistently asks much of us.
Thus, unselfish love( a·Gaʹpe) is greater than either faith or hope.
Of these, a·Gaʹpe is the term used to describe the God
who“ is love.”.
A·Gaʹpe love“ bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”.
When exercised by God, therefore, a·Gaʹpe is love on which divine justice is based.
Its meaning is closely related to the meaning of a·Gaʹpe, the word usually translated“ love.”.
But why did Paul say that this kind of love( a·Gaʹpe) was greater than faith?
Thus while we are told to love( a·Gaʹpe) our enemies, we
do not have affection for them.
One Greek scholar noted:“[ A·Gaʹpe] enables us to conquer our natural tendency to anger
and to bitterness.”.
For example, when
John wrote,“The Father loves the Son,” he used a form of the word a·Gaʹpe.
The person who manifests a·Gaʹpe, principled love,
does good even to an enemy who hates and mistreats him.
Here the word is a·Gaʹpe, the same one that the apostle John used
when he said:“ God is love.”.
For example,
Tyndale chose to translate the Greek word a·Gaʹpe as“ love” instead of“ charity” in 1
Corinthians chapter 13.
In the book of Romans, Paul uses the word“ love”( a·Gaʹpe in Greek) several times when referring to God's love
and that of Christ.
Working from the original Greek of Erasmus' text rather than the Latin, Tyndale chose“ love” over“ charity” to
express the meaning of the Greek term a·Gaʹpe more fully.
Rather, it is a·Gaʹpe - the love based on principle,
which might be said to be synonymous with unselfishness, the love the apostle John referred to when he said:“ God is love.” - 1 John 4: 8.
Concerning this love( a·Gaʹpe), Professor William Barclay in his New
Testament Words says:“ Agapē has to do with the mind: it is not simply an emotion which rises unbidden in our hearts[ as may be the case with phi·liʹa]; it is a principle by which we deliberately live.