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The name comes from the Greek word ἀγάπη , which implies divine love, to love as fully as God loves, unconditionally. Agape meals originated in the early Church and were a time of fellowship for believers.
C. S. Lewis uses agape in The Four Loves to describe what he believes is the highest variety of love known to humanity: a selfless love that is passionately committed to the well-being of others. [10] The Christian use of the term comes directly from the canonical Gospels' accounts of the teachings of Jesus.
“Now faith, hope, and love remain — these three things — and the greatest of these is love.” — 1 Corinthians 13:13 “We love because God first loved us." — 1 John 4:19
It is a love that gives freely without asking anything in return and does not consider the worth of its object. [7] [8] Agape is more a love by choice than Philos, which is love by chance; and it refers to the will rather than the emotion. It describes the unconditional love God has for the world in the Christian faith.
The Gospel of Thomas contains a version of this verse, but it comes to a very different conclusion, arguing that clothing is useless and should be dispensed with. [ 4 ] The vocative "O ye of little faith ", ολιγοπιστοι ( oligopistoi ), appears several times in the Gospels .
18:But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. The New International Version translates the passage as: 15:Peter said, "Explain the parable to us." 16:"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them. 17:"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
This famous verse continues the discussion of wealth, and makes explicit what was implied in Matthew 6:21: a person cannot pursue both material goods and spiritual well-being. The two goals are mutually exclusive. This famous saying also appears at Luke 16:13, but there it comes at the end of the Parable of the Unjust Steward.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you: do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the ...