ἀγαπάω agapáō

Meaning

to love (in a social or moral sense)

In the King James Version: (be-)love(-ed)

Derivation: perhaps from (much) (or compare G5689);

Where it is used

• Ephesians 1:6 to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
• Ephesians 2:4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
• Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
• Ephesians 5:28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
• Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
• Ephesians 6:24 Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
• Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
• Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:4 Brothers who are beloved by God, we know that He has chosen you,
• 1 Thessalonians 4:9 Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
• 2 Timothy 4:8 From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.
• 2 Timothy 4:10 because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
• Hebrews 1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.”
• Hebrews 12:6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
• James 1:12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
• James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
• James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
• 1 Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
• 1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• 1 Peter 2:17 Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
• 1 Peter 3:10 For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
• 2 Peter 2:15 They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
• 1 John 2:10 Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
• 1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 1 John 3:10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
• 1 John 3:11 This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
• 1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
• 1 John 3:18 Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
• 1 John 3:23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
• 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
• 1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
• 1 John 4:10 And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• 1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
• 1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
• 1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us.
• 1 John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
• 1 John 4:21 And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
• 1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
• 1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
• 2 John 1:1 The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I alone, but also all who know the truth—
• 2 John 1:5 And now I urge you, dear lady—not as a new commandment to you, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
• 3 John 1:1 The elder, To the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth:
• Jude 1:1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
• Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
• Revelation 3:9 As for those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead, I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.
• Revelation 12:11 They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
• Revelation 20:9 And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.