What is love?

It's been a while... things get busy here around midterm time. ;) Fortunately, I'm done with midterms until Monday, and then I will be done with them until April! So I thought I could finally take time to write something again. I was inspired the other day by a friend to look up verses about love, what love is and what it looks like. Here are some I found.

John 15:13: "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down his life for his friends."

1 John 5:3: "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome."

Song of Solomon 8:6: "Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is as strong as death... many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it. If a man were to give for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned."

Romans 5:5: "Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us."

1 John 3:16: "By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for our brethren... my little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and truth."

Ephesians 5:2: "And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us, an offering and a sweet smelling aroma."

Proverbs 10:12: "Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins."

Psalm 31:23: "Oh, love the Lord, all you his saints! For the Lord preserves the faithful, and fully repays the proud person. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord."

1 Corinthians 13:4: "Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy, love does not parade itself, it is not puffed up, does not behave rudely; love does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in truth; love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, love never fails."