Irrespective of your status, race or the economics, everyone values love & recognizes that it is love that shapes what is true and good. The term “Love” has always been used so broadly to describe an emotional attraction between two or more people. But the truth of the matter is that there are three kinds of love in the Bible and this includes Eros, Agape and Philos. So if you really want to learn how you can follow Jesus’s command to always love one another please read on.
Eros Love
God created physical attraction between a man & a woman, but He never intended for it to be selfish. He created desire and longing which makes up sexual love which is crucial in any marriage. This love was meant to be preserved between a couple and it is essential for any health marriage. And since it is mostly based on self-benefit, many people tend to fall out of love if they are not happy with the marriage.
Agape Love
This is a special term which represents the divine-love of the Lord towards his Son Jesus Christ, the human beings and all believers. This is the best of the three types of love in the bible, in fact Jesus himself showed this type of divine love to his Dad in heaven and humanity. Agape love is the love that God commanded all believers to have for everyone whether he/she is a believer or not. Agape love should never be determined by our feelings; it is more of a set of behaviors or actions. With agape, you do not have to actually feel it for you to give it, which means that you can be able to show love without feeling anything at all. At times feelings can follow after showing this kind of love.
Philos Love
This is a unique kind of love like the one you have for a companion or pal. It refers to loving one another just like your brother or sister. This love is for a pal who is really close and dear to us and it is characterized by various different shared experiences between two people. In fact this is the kind of love that many Christians tend to practice towards one another. And although philos love is really wonderful, it is not that much reliable, since it can end up souring at times as we have all experienced at some point in our lives.
I think i need agape love
Hang in their Francis, God’s love is coming real soon their has been a slight delay in people finding God’s truth in God’s word; that is being addressed as you read. God’s love for each and everyone of God’s created individuals is unimaginable, unexplainable and indescribable. The same thing goes for our Creator God.
God’s best news is; just specifically for you! I’m going to ask God to reach out and touch your heart and let you experience and feel God’s Agape Love when you read this.
I leave you in wrapped in God’s arms of your All-Loving-I-Am-All-in-All-in-One-God-of-God’s-All-Love; in Jesus Name!
John
Excellent wording describing God’s Love, you mentioned here John “God’s love for each and everyone of God’s created individuals is unimaginable, unexplainable and indescribable. The same thing goes for our Creator God.”
God’s love that works in our hearts to love is beyond human understanding, but you described rightly here”
I do hope all humans can experience God’s Love in their lives.
Love thy neighbors. I love you.
AGAPE LOVE is the best we should practice.
Sure my dear beloved we have to practice pray for me.
Yes indeed
Thank you for this.. Very helpful for my sunday school teaching.. Love how you worded ever ything! 🙂 <3 this so muchhh and I can't wait to finish my powerpoint for my students to watch it…
I’m the same way with this lesson.. Currently I’m teaching on the fruit of the spirit and I feel led to stay on love just a little while. This is really helping me to describe the 3 types of love.
I’m writing a book surrounding the fruit of the spirit. And I have been studying on love for some time now. I’m also getting ready to read ” The Love Resolution ” by Joyce Meyer! 🙂
I we say agape love is d best of all nd may d blesing of b with me nd my family Amen!
May d blesing of God b with me nd my family Amen!
Aren’t there four types of love?
Yes: storge, which is family love
Agope, philos ,Eros, storge
These are the four
The best Love of all, Is from God.
God is the purest form of Love created.
What is more pure than God’s Love from the Spirit?
Amen and zillions of amen!!?
True, the Holy Spirit works in the hearts to water Love to one another.
Bible said “love your neighbor as you love yourself ” this can’t be without the Holy Spirit that is fueled in the heart…
Agape love is the best love to have so all should have that love
Agape love is the best of love everybody show have
Yes, I have it, and we all need it so much. It is very important.
Thank you so so so sssssooooooo much I neaded to write a lesson on the love chapter in a hour and I forgot the names of the three types of love and so I googled it and picked the first one and this is the website! <3 it! 😀
Love is such a nice feeling towards one another in whatever type but Agape is what I recommend for everybody.
Yes true Unconditional Love
AGAPE LOVE IS DIVINE. We must pursue after that.
I think is well explained and I believe it in jesus name..
very helpful to me as a young adult to see what type of love I have and I don’t have. :* <3
#Thankyou
Good to have a divinely imparted love.
I love it soo much bcos I am a Sunday school teacher and holding love for now
agape love is the best of them all..god blessed me with a loving family….amen
Thanks for this improvement i really appreciate it because now i know the kinds of love in the holy Bible
Had a teaching about these kinds of love and it really excited me to wanna know more.. I am wiser now Thank God
I think I need the philos love.
Which part of your body is preferable to have? I guess every part is essential. You can’t cut off any part and feel whole. You see therefore that all types of love has its own facet to fill. Relationships abhors absence of love. Soul never ever fall out of love. If it falls out of one level ,it falls unto another depending on where it is. It leaves one, it falls into another. It can not escape the ultimate love called Agape. It is unconditional love. Every one has access to it like every one has access to air we breath. Are you good or bad you still get the air that sustains you to live. That’s Agape. That’s divine. That’s Universal love.
Love is “SAPHE”
S arge
A gape
Ph ilos
E ros
Remember this jagon and you will always remember all kinds of love as per Greek definitions.
Point of correction.
S torge and not S arge
Agape love is the best please let us try and cope with this love
Help Me,O Lord to love as you have loved me from the beginning
Agape love is the best may the good lord help us
Tanks.this has helped me in an assignment nd personal research on love.
I want d agape kinda love dats jst perfect 4 u God
agape is the best 4 me
Thanks for the love information in the bible
Agape Is The Best For Every One.Thnks For That Analysis.May God Bless U.
The Agape love as prescribed is the kind of love Christians should long after,it is one that will lead them to heaven. Not that others are not important but we must first long for the best.
Thanks for the information.
My pastor brought up the types of love this past Sunday and I didn’t realize that one was more important than the other. I just thought love was just love.
Agape love is important to have in ever human being before life can go on.
Could it be possible to still express philos love or even agape love without coming in physical contact with the person(s) that you sincerely or genuinely care for ?
Dis has being helpful,Ids also well explained and I am thankful. Actually we r on marriage lessons and dis has helped a lot. Tanx
am a new person that want to know what is love is all about in Christianity life?
Thanks, I learn a lot from this and i am encouraging every body to focus on that particular divine love that leads to eternal life with God which is “AGAPE LOVE” because is the best of all!.
What bible verse is it in
Indeed,love is great. I think everyone or everything on earth loves,but these types of love did not cover to my satisfaction. I want to know,the name that the kind of love we have for other things that are not hunan in nature be called. Thank you for posting this to contribute to my knowledge.
Indeed love is the ultimate we must all have Agape love and demonstrated it to every one
I need both agape love and Philo’s love. As long as it’s is a love of Christianity.
we must Love one another no matter what are are going through.
Not only your best friend that you Love. Or your boyfriend or girlfriend or ever your Wife and Husband.
This is really great,i should share this topic with my students so that they really know what type of love they share towards one another.agape love is the best.
Apostle Chuks Israel. Agape love is what we need in our world today to make it a better place for the entire humanity. If humanity imbibes agape love conflict resolutions across board shall be made alot easy.Peace would reign and wars will sieze all over the world.
Does the Bible give us types of Love? Love is Love….. We are given it names because of our life style and our kind of behavior these days.
1st Corinthians 13:4-7 13:1 Love suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Love suffereth long, and is kind; Love envieth not; Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:5
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
13:6
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
13:7
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:8
Love never faileth:
Looking at this,it is clear that Love is a complete something and should not lack anything. If a feeling towards another person lacks some of the things mentioned above,then it is not love,and must be given another name.
Love is Love,it is complete. We just dont have it this days. It is hard to come by in this our time because of our sins and selfishness,and we confuse things like LUST for LOVE
One day being confused and deeply depressed, I tried to find an ultimate love from various source in order to curb the crown of issues that were running on my mind. But when I came cross John 3:16, i encountered one of the most phenomenal relief of its kind. Because the kind of love God expressed by giving His only son, that only pacified the whole contradiction that was subjected to me in the quest of finding genuine love. In my conclusion, found that, God’s love toward a man supersed all other love.
Biblically, Agape love is the collective issue which is greater then ever but i personally cherish philos love because it cover’s the range of natural
agape love is the best love
follow by philos love,i think we should learn this type of love
God is love and Jesus is the Image or Personification of God therefore the Lord Jesus is the embodiment of Love!
Yes my dear beloved brother Jesus is the image of living God.
no bible reference
Agape love is not void of feelings. It just isn’t controlled by self (flesh). The Bible says that God has poured His love into our hearts. God has feelings and we are created in His image and liking. God said in Genesis that it grieve Him at His heart to have created man. Paul himself said that you can give your body to be burned, give all your belongings to the poor and if you have no love it means nothing. So obviously it isn’t just acts void of feelings. Love is an emotion that comes from a heart that has had God’s love poured into it. Anger isn’t void of feelings and neither is agape. Agape is a complete selfless and sacrificial love. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son. When people say that you don’t have to have feelings, that’s not real. That is why one must be born again because only the son’s of God can manifest this love. If agape are just acts void of any feelings, then even unsaved people can manifest it. I don’t believe that’s true.
I love the teaching
am saturated now, this opens my eye more about love.. God please give me the heart of Jesus. Amen
The Agape love is the true one.Surely we ought to practice it as human beings.Not forgetting we are stll in the world where we he to practic the other thre with caution not to break the Agape one coz its the biding gum to the other types.Most people think the Eros type is demonic bt in marriage it maked the spouses live happily and builds the bond to live together.