"4 Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. . . . "
(1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
The thing that stands out most to me about these verses that are intended to define love, is that love is quite clearly expressed through actions, and is not an emotion we feel. Love can only be manifest by means of action.
Love is kind. Shunning lifelong friends and family members for simple thought crimes and other so-called errors is not a very kind. It is unloving in fact. Love does not keep account of the injury. Who was injured? You? Because your cousin smokes a cigarette? You're hurt because young brother Johnson is dating young sister Hudson; they fell in love and had safe premarital sex? How the hell is that any of your business, Sister Pioneer and Brother Literature Counter . . . ? You're going to walk right past them in the grocery store and pretend they are not there? Grow up.
Love does not brag. The GB and JW's boast incessantly about the WT peddling work they do, pretending as if placing a spiritual Happy Meal with an elderly woman waiting for the bus is somehow lifesaving. The brag that every single baptized member of the religion is an "Ordained Minister" by God himself simply because they spend an average of 10 hours per month peddling WT publications at every opportunity.
Love rejoices in truth. These "Ordained Ministers" are magazine salespeople. Yet, they brag that they are the ONLY ones doing the work Jesus commanded them to do. The WTBTS includes in their publications absurd false representations depicting First Century Christians going from house-to-house with scrolls, bound volumes, and even papyrus parchments about the size of WT magazines sharing them with householders, soldiers, and political leaders. They cling blindly to the lie that Jerusalem fell to Babylon in 607 when it actually did not, and they all rejoice in the promulgation of that lie . . . among other variations of truth they put forth proven to be utterly false by history and by their words.
I could go on and on pointing out how JW's do not express any real sort of love when held up to the standard of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, but this should suffice.
