For the Bible, love begins with God — “God is love” — and he proved it before we deserved it. That is why biblical love is more an attitude than a feeling: patience, kindness and giving yourself for another.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love described in verbs: it waits, it is kind, it does not seek its own. Read at weddings, it was written to a divided church. (The KJV says “charity” for love.)
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Loving others is the mark of those who know God, because love is his very nature.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 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.
Paul’s list covers life, death and everything in between: nothing separates us from the love of God.
