Love is Love
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 1 Corinthians 13:4–5
Love is Love
Every June, California and many other states celebrate “Pride Month”, promoting a view of “love” rooted in personal identity and sexual desire.
But this misguided celebration of “pride” reveals the world’s deep confusion of love.
Our culture has traded God’s definition of love for one built on self-fulfillment. The world clearly does NOT understand love – as evidenced by so many broken marriages.
In other words, “love is love” to this world is the same as “marriage is inventory” to divorce lawyers
“Love is love” sounds inclusive. It sounds righteous.
But without truth, it’s just noise. It’s like saying “water is water” to a person dying of thirst. Technically correct. Functionally useless. (Also, you can’t define a word using the same word).
Let’s strip the sentiment out for a second. To divorce lawyers, marriage is inventory. Job security. Another case file.
It’s not personal. It’s professional.
And that’s the problem.
What Is Love? Bible v Culture
The phrase “love is love” is shouted out at rallies everywhere. Yet, these rallies have nothing to do with love. Where are the good fruits?
Society has equated love with feelings, passion, and personal gratification.
The world preaches that if you desire something (or someone), it must be love. The world says love is a feeling – something that happens when chemistry is right, or when someone “makes you happy”.
But Scripture says otherwise. Love is not proud. Love is patient, kind, humble, and enduring (1 Corinthians 13). It’s a commitment, not a convenience.
When couples walk into marriage with the world’s view of love, they set themselves up for failure. They expect passion to carry the relationship. But when hard seasons come – and they will – these “feelings” fade, and divorce lawyers get rich.
Without a Biblical foundation, the marriage will end in divorce. (Read about Siroki Brijeg, the city with no divorce)
Pride and Divorce Rates
In reality, “pride” has nothing to do with love or marriage, but everything to do with divorce.
This isn’t just about LGBTQ+. All sex outside of marriage is sinful and destroying our society. Almost 3,000 babies are aborted per day!
In 2021, the CDC reported that abortions are mostly from unmarried women: (45.9%*/87.3%^), in their 20’s. (60%*/57%^).
This is the saddest video I’ve seen, recently passed around the internet.
Devastating.
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) June 3, 2025
Our fallen culture has redefined “love” as a fleeting emotion and taught our children the lie that they should “follow their hearts” and other dangerous anecdotal marriage advice.
The Bible is clear:
The heart is deceitful above all things. Jeremiah 17:9
When people build relationships on fleeting emotions instead of truth, and value feelings over faithfulness, they walk away the moment things get hard.
The result? More broken marriages. More fractured homes. More children paying the price for a lie sold as “freedom”.
“Love is Love” is Why Marriages Fail
Divorce lawyers see pain every day. Every single day, husbands and wives pour their hearts out to me about how they were blindsided, betrayed, or bored.
Many believed they did everything “right”, yet their marriages still failed. Why?
Because their love is shaped more by Hollywood than the Bible.
The world’s divorce rate is 1 of 2 marriages.
The Bible says, “Love never fails.”
Truth About Love
There’s hope for marriage. Start by rejecting cultural lies like “love is love”.
True love isn’t found in pride or passion alone. It’s found in God’s design for marriage: one man, one woman, united in a lifelong covenant (Genesis 2:24).
Love is not about self-expression, but rather self-sacrifice.
If your marriage is struggling – or if you’ve already walked through divorce – know this:
God’s grace is real. Healing is possible. But it starts with truth. And the truth is that our culture’s version of love is broken. Only when we reclaim God’s definition of love can we begin to rebuild lasting marriages.
Let Jesus’ love redefine what love means for you. It’s not just a feeling—it’s a promise, a covenant, and a gift from the One who loves you most.
Love Is Not Proud
Next time you hear the world say, “love is love” amidst the reality of the high divorce rates, I pray you will recognize the ache of cognitive dissonance and emptiness of this phrase.
Whether you’re a believer navigating a difficult season in marriage, or you’re seeking counsel after a divorce, it’s time to return to what love actually is. It’s not pride. It’s not self-gratification. It’s not chasing feelings. It’s sacrificial.
1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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