See also: Love, p. 120 Greek expression: agapē, phileō Pronunciation: ah guh PEH; fee LEH oh Strong’s Numbers: 26, 5368 KEY VERSES Romans 5:5, 8; 1 John 4:7–8 We use the word love to describe all kinds of feelings—from adoration to lust. But the ancient Greeks had four words to express different kinds of “love”: (1) eraō for “sexual passion,” a word not found in the New Testament; (2) storgeō for “family devotion,” a word used in a negative sense in 2 Timothy 3:3 as “unloving”; (3) phileō
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