Test of Love

 

Love Test

Give a Score of 1 to 10 on each trait below of how you love someone

_____#1 love is patient

_____#2 love is kind

_____#3 It does not envy

_____#4 it does not boast

_____#5 it is not proud

_____#6 it is not rude

_____#7 it is not self-seeking

_____#8 it is not easily angered

_____#9 it keeps no record of wrongs

_____#10 a & b love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth

_____#11 it always protects

_____#12 always trusts

_____#13 always hopes

_____#14 always perseveres

Well how did you score?

On a scale of 1to10 how did you do with each of the 14 traits of Love?

A perfect score of all 14 traits is 140

Grade	Total #	Percentage
A	126 to 140	90-100%
B	112 to 125	80-89%
C	98 to 111	70-79%
D	84 to 97	60-69%
F	83 & Below	59% and below

 

Test of Love

 

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 says Love is…

 

We have all heard these

14 descriptive words of what love is,

maybe at a wedding or in a church sermon.

 

Maybe you have read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.

 

But have you ever stacked your life next

 to the stack of 14 words in 1 Corinthians 13?

 1 Corinthians 13 says “Love is”.

 

Before we look at the list of 14,

 let’s look at the word Love in the Greek.

 

It is agape meaning affection or benevolence.

 

Love is like addressing a letter with “Dear” ____________.

 

To truly take the love test you and I must put a name,

a person, we are directing our love to.

 

We must first call them Dear,

have affection or benevolence for them.

 

Maybe at this point,

we find ourselves failing the test

as there are people we would not call them dear to us.

 

The first thing on the list is…

 

#1 “love is patient”

 

How do you handle waiting?

 

Does your time schedule make you irritable?

 

When someone’s afflictions or actions causes you to suffer?

 

#2 love is kind

 

Words and actions that are being useful

 

Encouraging

 

#3 it does not envy

 

How do you handle people who have more than you?

 

Is jealousy in your heart?

 

#4  it does not boast

 

How often do you use the word “I”?

 

Do you brag, exaggerate, overstate, self-praise about yourself?

 

#5 It is not Proud

 

Do you have a feeling of superiority?

 

Because of birth, position. or money

 

#6 it is not rude

 

Are we using words that ridicule, taunt, belittle, humiliate, or insult?

 

#7 it is not self-seeking

 

Personal welfare over the interest of others.

 

#8 it is not easily angered

 

How quickly are you provoked or stirred?

 

#9 It keeps no record of wrongs

 

Do you keep score of bad, evil, harm, others have done to you?

 

How easy is it for you to forgive?

 

#10a love does not delight in evil

 

Evil – adikia injustice (unjust), iniquity (immoral or grossly unfair behavior)

 

The “character” of evil, the “act” of evil, the “situation” of evil

 

If it is not right (unrighteousness) it is wrong.

 

There is nothing to like or love about evil

in a person or on a person or situation

 

#10b But rejoices with the truth

 

The word “But” connects “Truth” to the first part of the verse “Evil”

 

Evil or injustice is generally caused because the truth is hidden.

 

To love is to want truth.

 

As a witness in the court of law would

give evidence by a sworn statement.

 

To “Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” 

 

The word “rejoice” sugchairo  means

to sympathize in gladness

 

We can sympathize with others

and on lots of issues…

 

But our sympathy should always be above emotional

and bias and sympathize with truth.

 

Jesus said in John 8:31-32…

 

To the Jews who had believed him,

Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

 

John 8:34-35…

 

Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth,

everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

 

“The truth will set you free”

 

#11 it always protects

 

Protect here means “to roof over”

 

Love does not abandon, but creates a shelter.

 

Being that roof means you will take the beating of the wind and rain.

 

The word “always” means all, any, every, the whole

 

So, in light of the verse before this…

 

 We are to cover a person whether they are wrong or right

in a way that the truth can set them free.

 

You can provide a roof of protection…

 

 But if the person refuses to stay under the roof

they walk out from that protection.

 

#12 always trusts

 

This word trust is pisteuo meaning

to have faith, in, upon, or with respect to a person or thing

 

To entrust someone’s spiritual well being to Christ.

 

Love will pray for Christ to do

a spiritual work that you cannot do.

 

The word “always” trust

 

In “all” situations God is able to do

above all we could ask or think

Romans 14:4

 

#13 always hopes

 

Because God is able to do above all

we could ask or think.

 

 We can in “all” or always have hope.

 

Love never gives up

 

#14 always perseveres

 

The word perseveres is hupomeno…

 

 To stay under, to remain, to bear, fortitude

 

Love causes us to stay under a person

to carry one another’s burdens.

Galatians 6:2

 

To suffer the weight for others. 

 

Note verse 7 says always 4 times

 

The word “always” means all, any, every, the whole.

 

No matter the place or time love always…

 

Protect, Trust, Hopes, Perseveres 

 

Take this test with the people around you Score 1 to 10

_____#1 love is patient

_____#2 love is kind

_____#3 It does not envy

_____#4 it does not boast

_____#5 it is not proud

_____#6 it is not rude

_____#7 it is not self-seeking

_____#8 it is not easily angered

_____#9 it keeps no record of wrongs

_____#10 a & b love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth

_____#11 It always protects

_____#12 always trusts

_____#13 always hopes

_____#14 always perseveres

 

Well how did you score?

 

On a scale of 1to10 how did you do with each of the 14 traits of Love?

 

A perfect score of all 14 traits is 140.

Grade	Total #	Percentage
A	126 to 100	90-100%
B	112 to 125	80-89%
C	98 to 111	70-79%
D	84 to 97	60-69%
F	83 & Below	59% and below

Scripture Reading

 

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NIV

 

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.