The Importance of Love

There's a couple of, there's four different words in Greek for love. And there's two of those that show up in this chapter. Now we only have one word, just L-O-V-E, love. So right here it's filea, like the word philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. This is a type of love among friends and brothers who are closely knit with one another. But earlier in verse five, for example, you have the word agape. And this is a kind of love that's more enduring and it's more relational. Both of these are actually used in this chapter and encompasses the kind of love Jesus invites all of us