ἀγάπη agápē

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: (feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love

Derivation: from G25 (ἀγαπάω);

Where it is used

• 1 Thessalonians 3:12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,
• 1 Thessalonians 5:8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:13 In love, hold them in highest regard because of their work. Live in peace with one another.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:10 and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
• 2 Thessalonians 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
• 1 Timothy 1:5 The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
• 1 Timothy 1:14 And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Timothy 2:15 Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
• 1 Timothy 4:12 Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
• 1 Timothy 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
• 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
• 2 Timothy 1:13 Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Timothy 2:22 Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• 2 Timothy 3:10 You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance,
• Titus 2:2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
• Philemon 1:5 because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints.
• Philemon 1:7 I take great joy and encouragement in your love, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
• Philemon 1:9 I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.
• Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
• Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
• 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
• 1 Peter 5:14 Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.
• 2 Peter 1:7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
• 1 John 2:5 But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are 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 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
• 1 John 3:16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
• 1 John 3:17 If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
• 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 4:9 This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
• 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 4:12 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 4:16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
• 1 John 4:17 In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.
• 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.
• 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
• 2 John 1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, will be with us in truth and love.
• 2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
• 3 John 1:6 They have testified to the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
• Jude 1:2 Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
• Jude 1:12 These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
• Jude 1:21 keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
• Revelation 2:4 But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love.
• Revelation 2:19 I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latest deeds are greater than your first.