Is love automatically produced?

LOVE is not automatically produced after someone has FAITH. 

1 Corinthians 13:

Paul wrote that it is possible for someone to have all faith but not have love, as he wrote: "if I-have all FAITH so-as to-remove mountains, BUT I-do NOT have LOVE, I-am nothing" (1 Corinthians 13:2).

1 Timothy 6:

Paul wrote "(to) Timothy, genuine child in (the) FAITH" (1 Timothy 1:2) to "BE-PURSUING righteousness, well-worship, faith, LOVE" (1 Timothy 6:11). 

The Greek word for "BE-PURSUING" (1 Timothy 6:11) is in the imperative mood, which expresses a command to the hearer to perform something by the order and authority of the one commanding. Paul did not use the indicative mood in the Greek, which would simply have been a statement of fact that would have described something merely happening. 

The Greek word for "BE-PURSUING" (1 Timothy 6:11) is used by Paul elsewhere to express something that is not yet attained and is ahead, as Paul wrote: "forgetting the (things) behind and stretching-toward the (things) ahead, "I-AM-PURSUING TOWARD (THE) GOAL" (Philippians 3:13-14).

Paul actually started 1 Timothy by saying that love was a goal: "THE END(-GOAL) (of the) command IS LOVE" (1 Timothy 1:5).

Colossians 3:

Paul wrote to "FAITHFUL brothers in Christ" (Colossians 1:2), "having-heard (of) your FAITH in Christ Jesus" (Colossians 1:4), and to them Paul wrote to "PUT-ON deep-feelings (of) compassion, kindness" (Colossians 3:12) and "over all these (things PUT ON) LOVE" (Colossians 3:14).

The Greek word for "PUT-ON" (Colossians 3:12) is in the imperative mood, which expresses a command to the hearer to perform something by the order and authority of the one commanding. Paul did not use the indicative mood in the Greek, which would simply have been a statement of fact that would have described something merely happening. 

2 Peter 1:

Peter wrote "(to) the (ones) having-obtained an equally-precious FAITH (with) us" (2 Peter 1:1), and wrote to them to supply in their faith qualities such as LOVE: "having-applied all diligence — in your FAITH SUPPLY virtue; and in (your) virtue, knowledge; and in (your) knowledge, self-control; and in (your) self-control, endurance; and in (your) endurance, godliness; and in (your) godliness, brotherly-love; and in (your) brotherly-love, LOVE" (2 Peter 1:5-7).

The Greek word for "SUPPLY" (2 Peter 1:5) is in the imperative mood, which expresses a command to the hearer to perform something by the order and authority of the one commanding. Peter did not use the indicative mood in the Greek, which would simply have been a statement of fact that would have described something merely happening.

LOVE is not automatically produced after someone is born of God. 

Paul wrote to people whom he said "I BEGOT you in Christ Jesus through the good-news" (1 Corinthians 4:15), and to them Paul commanded to "BE-PURSUING LOVE" (1 Corinthians 14:1). 

The Greek word for "BE-PURSUING" (1 Corinthians 14:1) is in the imperative mood, which expresses a command to the hearer to perform something by the order and authority of the one commanding. Paul did not use the indicative mood in the Greek, which would simply have been a statement of fact that would have described something merely happening. 

LOVE is not automatically produced as the fruit of the Spirit. 

The fruit of the Spirit would not automatically be produced.

For example, Paul wrote that "LOVE" (Galatians 5:22), "PEACE" (Galatians 5:22) and "FAITH" (Galatians 5:22) are part of "the fruit (of) the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:22). Paul also commanded elsewhere to "BE-PURSUING righteousness, FAITH, LOVE, PEACE" (2 Timothy 2:22).

The Greek word for "BE-PURSUING" (2 Timothy 2:22) is in the imperative mood, which expresses a command to the hearer to perform something by the order and authority of the one commanding. Paul did not use the indicative mood in the Greek, which would simply have been a statement of fact that would have described something merely happening. 

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Galatians 5:22-23 - Fruit of the Holy Spirit?:
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Further evidence of the conditionality of producing LOVE.

The conditionality of producing love can explain why Paul used the conditional particle "IF" when he wrote: "she-will-be-saved [...], IF THEY-MAY-HAVE-CONTINUED in faith and LOVE" (1 Timothy 2:15). 

The conditionality of producing love can explain why it is written in Hebrews that we are said to have fellowship with other believers for the provoking of love: "let us be-considering one-another for (the) PROVOKING (OF) LOVE and good works, not forsaking the gathering-together (of) ourselves as (is a) habit (with) some, but exhorting (one another)" (Hebrews 10:24-25).

The conditionality of producing love can explain why it is possible for people to leave their first love, as it is written: "you-have endurance, and bore-up for-the-sake-of My name, and have not become-weary. But I-have against you that YOU-LEFT your first LOVE" (Revelation 2:3-4).

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