Prayer and Bible Expo: Greek Word Study: ἀγάπη (love)

Greek Word Study: aÓga¿ph (agápē)

Definition: (BDAG, pg. 5)

1. to have a warm regard for and interest in another, cherish, have affection for, love

2. to have high esteem for or satisfaction with something, take pleasure in

3. to practice/express love, prove one’s love

Appearances of aÓga¿ph (love) in the New Testament:

Matt. 24:12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Luke 11:42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

John 5:42 But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.

John 13:35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 15:9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 17:26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Rom. 5:5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Rom. 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Rom. 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Rom. 8:39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom. 12:9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Rom. 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Rom. 14:15 For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.

Rom. 15:30 I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,

1Cor. 4:21 What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

1Cor. 8:1 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

1Cor. 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1Cor. 13:4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1Cor. 13:8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1Cor. 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1Cor. 14:1 Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

1Cor. 16:14 Let all that you do be done in love.

1Cor. 16:24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

2Cor. 2:4 For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

2Cor. 2:8 So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.

2Cor. 5:14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;

2Cor. 6:6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;

2Cor. 8:7 But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you — see that you excel in this act of grace also.

2Cor. 8:8 I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.

2Cor. 8:24 So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.

2Cor. 13:11 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

2Cor. 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Gal. 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

Gal. 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Gal. 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Eph. 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Eph. 1:15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,

Eph. 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

Eph. 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Eph. 3:19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Eph. 4:2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Eph. 4:15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Eph. 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Eph. 6:23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Phil. 1:9 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,

Phil. 1:16 The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.

Phil. 2:1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Col. 1:4 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,

Col. 1:8 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

Col. 1:13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

Col. 2:2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ,

Col. 3:14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1Th. 1:3 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1Th. 3:6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—

1Th. 3:12 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

1Th. 5:8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

1Th. 5:13 and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

2Th. 1:3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

2Th. 2:10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

2Th. 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

1Tim. 1:5 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

1Tim. 1:14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

1Tim. 2:15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1Tim. 4:12 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1Tim. 6:11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

2Tim. 1:7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

2Tim. 1:13 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

2Tim. 2:22 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

2Tim. 3:10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,

Titus 2:2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

Philem. 5 because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,

Philem. 7 For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

Philem. 9 yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—

Heb. 6:10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

Heb. 10:24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

1Pet. 4:8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1Pet. 5:14 Greet one another with the kiss of love.

Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

2Pet. 1:7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

1John 2:5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

1John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1John 3:16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 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?

1John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1John 4:12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

1John 4:16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

2John 3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.

2John 6 And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

3John 6 who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.

Jude 2 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Jude 12 These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;

Jude 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

Rev. 2:4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

Rev. 2:19 “ ‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.