An Example of What Love Really Looks Like NKJV


1 Corinthians 13:1-8 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels; but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

An Example of Love in Action

Matthew 26:36-47 Then Jesus came to them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.”                                          

And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.                

Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death, “Stay here and watch with Me.”

He went a little further and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”

Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?                                                                          

“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation, The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”                                                                                                                                                                             
Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, 

“O My Father, if this cup cannot pass from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.”  

And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.

So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time saying the same words.                                                      

Then he came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners,                                                                

“Rise, let us be going, See, My betrayer is at hand.”                  

And while He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and elders of the people.