Love as Covenant Commitment - Reformed (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

1 Corinthians 13 describes covenant love—love that binds despite circumstances. It's not "I love you because you make me happy" but "I love you because I promised." "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." Jonathan Edwards wrote that true virtue is "consent to being"—loving what IS, not what you wish existed. Covenant love doesn't require the other to deserve it. Reformed theology sees God's covenant love as the model: He loved us while we were enemies. That's the standard.