Are You Really in Love? How to Measure (and Improve) Love

A Checklist to Measure Love

The Apostle Paul gave us a checklist for measuring love in a beautiful passage that is often read at weddings.  It is worth reviewing whenever you face a relationship challenge.

I suggest you read it, however, not with an eye to how your lover is failing you, but mostly with an eye toward how you may be failing your lover.   After all, one must be sure to pluck the log out of one’s own eye before judging another (Matthew 7:3).

There are many good translations of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 that you can view in this link.

Here’s one I like which I’ve turned into bullet points [with other translations and biblical commentary in brackets]:

• Love is patient,
• love is kind.
• It does not envy [is not jealous],
• it does not boast [put oneself above others],
• it is not proud [quick to judge or slow to apologize]. 
• It does not dishonor [disdain or ridicule] others,
• it is not self-seeking, 
• it is not easily angered [slow to take offense], 
• it keeps no record of wrongs [is quick to forgive and forget]. 
• Love does not delight in evil [is not vengeful]
• but rejoices with the truth [communicates honestly]. 
• It always protects [ready to make allowances, is gentle in rebuke],
• always trusts [gives opportunities to improve],
• always hopes [allows mistakes without despair],
• always perseveres [never withholds another chance to love].

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