What Is Love?

popular song from the early 1990s asks an interesting

question:“What’s love got to do with it?”This chapter will

examine the meaning of love and its connection to relationships.

To determine the link between love and relationships,we first

must get a handle on what love is.

When youthink of allthesongsever written,consider how

many of them havesomethingtodowith love.Loveseemstobe

thesongwriter’spredominant theme!In lovesongswefindsome

aspect of lovewecan relatetoon an emotionallevel.But therein

So much of what people assume about

love has to do with an emotional feeling.

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

—Victor Hugo,French dramatist,novelist,and poet (1802–1885)

Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want

what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head,

Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle,

Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.

—1 Corinthians 13:4–7 MSG

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