Study Love

Study Love is described for Wikidelphia by its maker:

Study Love, subtitled, "A Super-Outline for Study or Meditation on 1 Cor. 13:4-7 (The New Testament Definition of Agape: Spiritual Love)", is a website that has been growing slowly since 2001, always adding information to facilitate deep exploration of the classic itemized Christian description of "agape" (ah-GAH-pay), a Koine Greek word which English crudely translates as "love".

"While it is possible to find topics here to debate," says a disclaimer under the Study Love main index, "this is primarily a space for people to learn how to put agape (love) into thought and practice." The site consists mainly of sixteen sections, each headed by a phrase from the King James Version:
Charity

Suffereth Long

And Is Kind

Charity Envieth Not

Charity Vaunteth Not Itself

Is Not Puffed Up

Doth Not Behave Itself Unseemly

Seeketh Not Her Own

Is Not Easily Provoked

Etc.

Each section includes:

A multitude of translations and versions of its head phrase.

Multiple definitions of the original Greek words and some of their derivatives ("paronyms"), synonyms, and antonyms.

Examples of these words elsewhere in the Bible.

Relevant quotations from other ancient sources and from commentators of later and modern centuries.

Some also have English dictionary definitions. Some have Hebrew equivalents and definitions.

There are also a few "Easter eggs", for example, a sub-page about love feasts and a sub-page about kindness to animals.

The site's design is minimistically plain, so the pages load unusually quickly. The whole site is downloadable in one tiny ZIP file (less than 1 MB).

See Also

Committee for Clear Thinking