Anyone who looks up a chapter on love in the Bible quickly comes to 1 Corinthians 13. Paul writes
in it: "Love is longsuffering, love is merciful, love is not afterthought, love
does not behave ostentatiously" (1 Cor. 13:4). Everything Paul writes about love in 1 Corinthians 13
recalls the example of Jesus Christ. You could use the word "love" in this chapter just like that with
"Jesus Christ. In this section, Paul uses a special verb
chrēsteuomai.

To this day, Paul is the very first writer to use this word. He does so
only in this place in the NT. The word chrēsteuomai means "to be loving, to be kind," and
is translated by "benevolent" in the above translation. Possibly it is derived from charitoō
'to do someone a favor, to bless or be graced'. Christians were allowed in the work of redemption
of Jesus Christ" see the evidence of God's gracious character. It was that attitude of Christ
which touched them in speaking of love and which Paul, too, had to think of when speaking of love.