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G26 ἀγάπη greek

pronunciation: agápē

definition: (feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love

love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast

Occurrences · 106 verses · page 1 of 5

• Matthew 24:12

  And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

• Luke 11:42

  But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

• John 5:42

  But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

• John 13:35

  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

• John 15:9

  As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

• John 15:10

  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

• John 15:13

  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

• John 17:26

  And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

• Romans 5:5

  And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

• Romans 5:8

  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

• Romans 8:35

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

• Romans 8:39

  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Romans 12:9

  Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

• Romans 13:10

  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

• Romans 14:15

  But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

• Romans 15:30

  Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

• 1 Corinthians 4:21

  What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

• 1 Corinthians 8:1

  Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

• 1 Corinthians 13:1

  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

• 1 Corinthians 13:2

  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

• 1 Corinthians 13:8

  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

• 1 Corinthians 13:13

  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

• 1 Corinthians 14:1

  Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.