God's Definition of Love

Someone who abuses does not love. There can be no love in someone who enjoys controlling and falsely judging others.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

"4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.

5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,

6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

When we love others and they love us we weep with them and they with us, and we laugh with them as they laugh with us. They love our happiness and seek to be an asset to us just as we love their happiness and seek to be happy for them.

When two people love one another their focus will be more interested in the other person than they are in themselves.

And, when we love someone we will be more focused on the salvation of the one we love.