If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth [fn1] but didn't love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; [fn2] but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. 6 It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages [fn3] and special knowledge will all disappear. 9 Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! 10 But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear.
11 It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. [fn4] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.
13 There are three things that will endure-faith, hope, and love-and the greatest of these is love.
2007-11-05 11:33:10
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answered by Anonymous
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I've heard say that God is true Love.
So love must be being more God like or more like God.
I like the answer, "being considerate". I think that is a God like quality.
If in your dealings with others you consciously tell yourself you are doing in a loving (God like) way, then you should be loving. If not,then it isn't going to be loving, Unless you are that perfect being who just knows how to love all the time with no uncertainty about it.
You are a manifestation of Love, realized or not.
2007-11-05 19:53:28
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answered by bigger_than_bear 2
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Love is the giving of one's self. These days, people think its about self-gratification, what makes you feel good. But if you're willing to lay down your life for someone you love, that's the kind of love that God means us to practice.
In Pace Christi,
A.F.
2007-11-05 19:36:59
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answered by Atticus Finch 4
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True love is action not feeling. Treating others the way you want others to treat you. Lifting others up to help them be the best they can be. Love is love expressed in joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, goodness and self-control.
2007-11-05 19:41:18
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answered by Suen 4
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To care more about another's needs than your own. To be willing to sacrifice all for another person's happiness.
Jesus said, no greater love has a man than to die for a Friend...he gave the ultimate sacrifice..
2007-11-05 19:38:44
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answered by dreamdress2 6
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the meaning of love to me is when u both look at each other and melt and when u feel like u want no other when you respect care for each other for as long as u live
2007-11-05 19:35:10
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answered by lady red 20 1
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love to me means sacrafice, trust and commitment, feelings come and go, so do those feelings of warm and fuzzy love, but the commitment stands firm in spite of "feelings" and does the best in favor for the one loved especially this is the case in marriage.
2007-11-05 19:35:17
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answered by Anonymous
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A person who appreciates everything about me and will always be there no matter what I do, always listens, always talks to me and knows things about me that I'm not proud of and don't share a lot.
My two sisters, my four best friends. they are who I love and who loves me.
2007-11-05 19:38:11
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answered by munchkin 7
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When somebody lets you have the window seat on an airplane.
2007-11-05 19:35:13
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answered by dreamer - VT-AM 4
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Love is universal,not restricted between a male and female............binds everyone,adds color to our life,make us to walk in right path....
2007-11-06 08:06:51
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answered by Deepa .B 1
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