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The English word "love" is a pretty vague and ill-defined term, and "selfless" doesn't help much. The NT Greek word "agape" adopted and transformed by Christian doctrine is worth a study. It is correctly defined as "a sovereign preference of one, over self and others," (noun) or "to sovereignly prefer one over self and others," (verb); according to a precise rendering in the margin for Jn. 13:34. (Wittman, Fred, "The Gospels: A Precise Translation," Happy Heralds, Inc., approx. 2008, p. 281)
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I am ignorant of the specific cultural factors that led to dissipation in connection with the Sacrament of the Altar as practiced in Corinth, but the town, as I understand it, had a penchant for partying. We would be susceptible to the same except as the First Petition of the Our Father is answered in our midst, and it is, albeit in places the world does not count as much.
For the Church at Corinth, the Apostle Paul was given to call them to repentance and to iterate most clearly that one should not partake of the Body and Blood of Christ Jesus without discernment. It is for our comfort that Christ Jesus established this Sacrament, so that His salvific benefits may be imbibed by poor sinners to strengthen them in faith and love as we await the Day when we shall see Him as He is.
Other words for love
eros — erotical love (sexual meaning)
philo — brotherly love (think of Phildelphia — the city of brotherly love
Seems like I am forgettin another one beside the agape.