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Faith, Hope, Love, Joy, and Peace are the “Magnificent Five.” Inseparable from one another, they support spiritual and psychological health. Love, Joy, and Peace are the order that our otherwise chaotic emotions are to take on. With God’s help we can cultivate these conditions and associated emotions so that they become prominent in us.
3 lut 2023 · The fruits, “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control,” (Galatians 5:22-23) actually start with love. The others flow out of that heart and mindset. Here in Corinthians, Paul gets specific – how one who has agape love will behave toward others, as opposed to someone who doesn’t.
“So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” The greatest treatise ever written on love “(agape) is I Corinthians 13. It’s first three verses are about the all-excelling value of agape. The next three verses are a 15-point description of agape. And the last six verses are about its destiny.
2 cze 2020 · I would say that hope includes peace and joy by anticipation and also patience. It has to be based on an unfeigned or active faith to work. All this is related at last, one way or another, to Love. Because God is Love and we are requested to love God and others.
26 lip 2023 · Biblical agape love is the love of choice, the love of serving with humility, the highest kind of love, the noblest kind of devotion, the love of the will (intentional, a conscious choice) and not motivated by superficial appearance, emotional attraction, or sentimental relationship.
7 kwi 2018 · Paul’s famous words on the Greek word agapē in 1 Corinthians 13 become the most eloquent definition of “love” in all human literature. But how did Paul and the New Testament faith community...
8 lut 2022 · Maybe you’ve already heard that agape (ἀγάπη) is the standard word for love in the Greek New Testament, and maybe you’ve heard that it points to a specific kind of love: a selfless, giving, non-emotional love—as opposed to the friendship love of philia (φιλία).
