What does love mean to you?

Question

How do you interpert love? Is it what your boyfriend tells you or is it how Jesus died for our sins or what is it?????

Answer 1

Your suggestion of examples are mere manifestation of love. Where as love is a personal quality, a way of being into which a person evolves over a period of time out of deep understanding of what it takes to nourish 'human-ness' into oneself !
The manifestation is situation-dependent ! A person can be full of 'love' even with nobody around, or nothing in particular to do at that moment ! When the situation needs, it flows into action naturally.

Answer 2

Without a doubt, true love is appreciated wherever we go. The love that can make a real difference in life is that described by the Bible writer Paul: “Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.”—1 Corinthians 13:4-8.

Yes, “love never fails.” Love heals. Love unites. Love is shown not just by words but by unselfish actions. Love has a pure motive. Paul also wrote: “If I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body, that I may boast, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.” If we make sacrifices or give gifts just to be seen by others, then from God’s viewpoint it is in vain.—1 Corinthians 13:3.

Jesus put it this way: “When you go making gifts of mercy, do not blow a trumpet ahead of you, just as the hypocrites do . . . that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, They are having their reward in full. But you, when making gifts of mercy, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing.” Yes, love does not boast or brag.—Matthew 6:2, 3.

What Is Love?

One description of love is ‘a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, a warm fondness or liking for another.’ It is a quality that moves people to work for the good of others, sometimes at great personal sacrifice. Love, as it is described in the Bible, involves both the mind and the heart. The mind, or intellect, plays a role because a person who loves does this with his eyes open, recognizing that he and other humans that he loves all have weaknesses as well as attractive qualities. The intellect is further involved since there are those whom a Christian loves—sometimes, perhaps, against his natural inclinations—because he knows from his reading of the Bible that God wants him to do so. (Matthew 5:44; 1 Corinthians 16:14) Still, love basically comes from the heart. Genuine love as it is revealed in the Bible is never merely intellectual. It entails deep sincerity and full emotional commitment.—1 Peter 1:22.

People who are selfish at heart are rarely capable of a truly loving relationship because a person who loves is prepared to put the interests of another ahead of his own. (Philippians 2:2-4) Jesus’ words “there is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving” are especially true when the giving is an act of love. (Acts 20:35) Love is a powerful bond. (Colossians 3:14) It often includes friendship, but the bonds of love are stronger than those of friendship. The romantic relationship between a husband and his wife is sometimes described as love; however, the love that the Bible encourages us to cultivate is more enduring than physical attraction. When a couple truly love each other, they remain together even if a physical relationship is no longer possible because of the infirmities of old age or because one of them is incapacitated.

Answer 3

1) ANSWER TO YOUR FIRST QUESTION: Love has as many different definitions as there are people. The English language really only has one word for "Love" so everyone gives it their own interpretation. The Greek gives us "phileo", (brotherly or friendship),"eros" (erotic), and "agape" (love that is unconditional, godlike or spiritual).

Some definitions which apply to the English word "love" are:
a) Need
b) Lust (spiritual, which often manifests itself physically)
c) The desire to nurture
d) Desire to escape from loneliness
e) Family obligation/dedication
f) Psychological state of "Luminescence" brought on by hormones and chemical responses in the body (physical)
g) From the "romantic" point of view would be to be totally blind to the faults of the "loved" one, want to be with them every moment, and want to spend the rest of your life with them.(Sometimes results from the state of "luminescence".)

2) ANSWER TO YOUR SECOND QUESTION: The type of love which sent Jesus to the cross to die for all of mankind was "Agape" love. It is unconditional, (despite anything any of us has ever done), never-ending, all-encompassing, seeks the best for us, and even allows us the free will to accept or reject that love. Now that's what I call TRUE LOVE!

Answer 4

1 Corintians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails
this what love means to me and there can not be any example of love other than the LOVE OF JESUS. For God so loved the world that HE sent HIS only begotten son JESUS into the world to die for our sins, can there be a greater love than this that one gives life for those who believe in HIM may be save,

Answer 5

Love is when Jesus died for my sins on the cross and shed His blood for me. Its because of Him that I try and show love to those around me. Love is knowing I am saved. Love is knowing each day I have my husband by my side. My love grows each day for my husband. Love means to me having someone love you and you didnt have to do nothing to earn it.

Answer 6

Love is not what we have been taught that it is.

If we carefully study the teachings of Jesus they show us the folly of approaching the idea of love from the conventionally acceptable way.

That is, reserving love only for those we have judged worthy of it.

Jesus' teachings have taught me that this is not love at all, it is only judgment.

Answer 7

Love is to serve with another, to understand each others needs and to help each other achieve them. In a time of need, in lonely times they your love will appear and all the negative feeling will disappear.
Like it's the other halve of your brain. Being loyal servants of each other

Answer 8

Love is an abstract feeling that has many forms and many meanings for differing situations. In my opinion when your boyfriend uses the term it is probably because he wants to get in your pants.

Answer 9

* Love is willingness to lay down one's life for someone else.
* Love is when you're willing to give what you have left to someone else
* Love seeks the good of others over and above one's own self
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* Love is not a Hallmark Card - Hallmark Card being just a quick sugar coated guilt fixer for lack of caring. See the above. [No offense to the card mfr]

Answer 10

Love is universal. Love itself is unpredictable. It can heal us and in the same time, it can hurt us. So love to me is that it can't be predicted. It cannot be controlled. It will come naturally. God's love too, if you have experienced it.