Three Levels of Love
Three levels of love
Deut 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
3 Levels of Love
Eros refers to physical love.
Philos means warm affection or friendship.
Agapē is the sacrificial, unconditional love of God.
Eros - This level of love is more of a physical form of love.
Eph. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
I Cor. 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Philos - This level of love is the one that we ought to have toward friends, family and pretty much toward everyone else
It’s the love that Jonathan has for David. 1 Samuel 18:3
Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Romans 12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;