A. Whatever you do do it in love:

1COR 16:14. Let all your things be done with charity.

2COR 5:14. For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

B. The qualities that genuine love will have:

1COR 8:1. Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

1COR 13:4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1COR 13:5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

1COR 13:6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

1JOH 4:18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

C. Genuine love results in unity of believers:

COL 2:2. That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

1SA 18:1. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

EPH 4:15. But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

EPH 4:16. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

PHI 2:1. If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

PHI 2:2. Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

D. Real love will not give up or fail:

SONG 8:7. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

1COR 13:4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1COR 13:7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

1COR 13:8. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

HEB 13:1. Let brotherly love continue.

E. Love is not pushy:

ROM 12:10. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

PHLM 1: 8. Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

PHLM 1: 9. Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

F. Love is considerate of others' weaknesses:

ROM 14:21. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

ROM 15:1. We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

ROM 15:2. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

GAL 5:13. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

EPH 4:2. With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

G. Love will not hurt or do wrong to others:

ROM 13:9. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

ROM 13:10. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

H. If we have love we will be kind & courteous:

1COR 13:4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

EPH 4:15. But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

EPH 4:32. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.