We mortal men are capable of several inferior kinds of love that are less wonderful, less powerful and less unselfish than the love of God. They are not everlasting love. We might call them brotherly love, sexual love, familial love, neighborly love, friendship love, etc.
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an EVERLASTING LOVE: (Capitals mine) therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
God intends His love to us to be everlastingly inbound and outbound. That should be the result when we receive the love of God.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
1 Thessalonians 5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
Quenching the love of God would certainly be a way to quench the Spirit.
1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
