by its positive counterpart). The final four verbs are positive again, each being preceded in Greek by πάντα, “all things.”8 Whereas English translations generally resort to adjectives in translating many of these verbs,9 the Greek has a dynamic quality well suited to the way love expresses itself in actions for the benefit of others. To love means to be (in Bonhoeffer’s words) the “one … for others.”10 Christian love expresses itself in outgoing, self-forgetful activity. Love’s first and greatest