Bible verse explanation

Love

Authors note: I'm going to do a series of the fruits of the spirit. Here's the first one.

Love. This whole world is all about love. There is almost no song that isn't about love. I'm 99.999979887% sure that there is a song called simply Love. It is mentioned approximately 587 times in the NIV.
There are 4 different kinds of love in the bible:
Agape: divine love, unconditional love
Phileo: brotherly love, friendship
Eros: true love, love for your spouse
Storge: parental love, love for your family

Here are some verses about love. (The first one is my favourite!)

1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, 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. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Romans 12:9
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil clinging to what is good.

Ephesians 4:2
Be completely humble and gentle be Patient barring with one another in love.

Definitions:

Mine: the feeling of carrying deeply for a thing or person.

Bible: patient, kind

Dictionary:passionate affection

Synonyms:
Tenderness fondness adoration