Biblical Concept: Definitions of love in 1 John
1)
Knowing and loving God = applying Bible Doctrine - I John 2:5
and
5:3.
2)
Love is a Biblical spiritual mental attitude - I John 2:15 and
5:2
Compared with Matthew 5:46.
3)
Love meets physical needs - I John 3:16-18.
4)
Love initiates - I John 4:10.
5)
Love and fear are opposites - I John 4:18.
6)
Biblical love is inclusive*, impersonal, universal to all brethren -
I John
7)
Biblical love needs to be learned - 1 John 4:21.
8)
Loving other Christians is accomplished by application of Bible
doctrine - I John 5:1-3
and compare 2 John 5-6.
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*Inclusive:
1.
Taking everything into account; including everything; comprehensive.
2.
Including the specified extremes or limits as well as the area between
them.
(Hyperlinked
from above.)
NAS 1 John 2:5 but
whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By
this we know that we are in Him:
NAS 1 John 5:3 For
this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments
are not burdensome.
NAS 1 John 2:15 Do
not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the
love of the Father is not in him.
NAS 1 John 5:2 By
this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His
commandments.
NAS Matthew 5:46 "For
if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the
tax-gatherers do the same?
NAS 1 John 3:16 We
know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down
our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and beholds
his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God
abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but
in deed and truth.
NAS 1 John 4:10 In
this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to
be the propitiation for our sins
NAS 1 John 4:18 There
is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves
punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
NAS 1 John 3:14 We
know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren.
He who does not love abides in death.
NAS 1 John 5:2 By
this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His
commandments.
NAS 1 John 4:21 And
this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his
brother also.
NAS 1 John 5:1 Whoever
believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and whoever loves the Father
loves the child born of Him. 2 By this we know that we love the children
of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. 3 For this is the love
of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.
NAS 2 John 1:5 And
now I ask you, lady, not as writing to you a new commandment, but the one which
we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love,
that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as
you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.