TWO TYPES OF LOVE

From the book Living in Love, available at https://www.amazon.com/Living-Love-Susan-Slade/dp/1954798164

G25 – agapáō – To esteem, love, indicating a direction of the will and finding one’s joy in something or someone . . . Agapáō and never philéō is used of love toward our enemies. The range of philéō is wider than of agapáō which stands higher than philéō because of its moral import, i.e., love that expresses compassion. We are thus commanded to love (agapáō) our enemies, to do what is necessary to turn them to Christ, but never to befriend them (philéō) by adopting their interests and becoming friends on their level.

G5368 – philéō – Loved, dear, friend. To love. Generally . . . to have affection for someone. . . Believers are never told to love their enemies with the word philéō because that would mean to have the same interests as they have.