To know what love looks like, we first must look at our precious, beloved Heavenly Father.  

He is love.

We can’t walk in pure love without having a personal relationship with Him and a profound revelation of His Love first. 

Next, we need to look in His Word to see what He wrote about how love is to look.  

We both know of the famous love chapter in the Bible, the 1 Corinthians 13 chapter, but we will focus on some other scriptures and look at Corinthians 13 another time. 

Romans 12:9-21 is an excellent place to read what the Words say about how Love looks. You can read the full address on your time. And I would encourage you to really study the meanings of the words. And maybe even look at different translations.

But I want to look at some the verses in Romans.  I am reading the AMPC translation.  

In verse 9, it says, Love is to be sincere and active [the real thing-without guile and hypocrisy]…….

Verse 10 says, Be Devoted to one another with [authentic] brotherly affection [as members of one family], give preference to one another in honor.  

Verse 13 says, Contributing to the needs of God’s people, pursuing [the practice of] hospitality. 

Verse 16 says, live in harmony with one another….

Let’s Look at some more scriptures

Philippians 2:1-4 is another place for you to study how love looks.

Let’s look in verse 3b ……regard others as more important than yourselves.

Also, in verse 4b… look out for the personal interest of others.

Look at what 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 says, but let’s focus on 9b…..for you have been [personally]taught by God to love one another [that is, to have an unselfish concern for others and to do things for their benefits.

John 13:34-35  I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples if you have love and unselfish concern for one another.  

1 Corinthians 10: the 24b…..seek good of the other person and verse 33 talks of seeking the interests and benefits of others so that they will be open to the message of salvation.  

John 15: 9-12 is another one to study.  In verse 12 …. you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another…..

Luke 6:27 -38, I encourage you to study this passage too.  Verse 27…Love[that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for] your enemies, [ make it a practice to] do good to those who hate you.  

Matthew 6:14-14 says, For if you forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others [nurturing your hurt and anger with the result that it interferes with your relationship with God], then your Father will not forgive your trespasses.  

We know that Love is the two new commandments given by Jesus that covers all of the other ten commandments, for when you fulfill these two commandments, you fill the others.  

Mark 12:28-33, looking in verse 30-31,  And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul (life), and with all your mind (thought, understanding), and with all your strength.  The second: You shall [unselfishly] love your neighbor as yourself.  There is no other commandment great than these.  

To sum up what love looks like:

Love prefers your brethren

Love esteems others better than yourself

Love gives more 

Love takes care of

Love serves others 

Love will cover sin

Love edifies 

Love rejoices

Love is ready to believe for the best

Love is humility for it’s secured enough

Love shows mercy

Love shows forgiveness

Love is a commandment, not a feeling.  

Deep love is when you are willing to take the place of someone else’s suffering.  

Jesus demonstrated that kind of love when he allowed himself to hang on the cross for us. When he became a sin, who knew no sin, so we who knew no righteousness can be made righteous, in right standing with God.  

We are ordered to love according to God’s word.  

It doesn’t matter what anyone has ever done or said to us. We are ordered to love. And it doesn’t matter how we feel.  

Walking in love is by faith, not by how we feel.  

Chose to walk in love, no matter what has been wrong against us or how we feel. God will bless us.  

When we choose to walk in love by faith and focus on walking in love, our feelings will line up, and we will experience the feeling of love.  

What Love Doesn’t Do is the next thing we will look at in the post “What Love Doesn’t Do.”