When the New Testament was written, a word was needed that would describe God�s love. Using the Greek verb agapao (which means to totally give yourself over to something) as their basis, a new noun was created: Agape, meaning God�s pure (unconditional) and divine love. (It�s pronounced A-gah-PAY.)
While agapao is used in the Bible to express love (or a �giving over of oneself") to many things�including the world, money, and lust�agape is never used except to express God�s unconditional love for us or God�s command for us to love each other unconditionally. |
