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en-wikipedia-org-8056		Charity (virtue) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1604	263	73	In Christian theology, Charity (Latin Caritas) is considered as one of the seven virtues and is understood by Thomas Aquinas as "the friendship of man for God", which "unites us to God". The phrase Deus caritas est from 1 John 4:8—or Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν (Theos agapē estin) in the original Greek[4] is translated in the King James Version as: "God is love", and in the Douay-Rheims bible as: "God is charity" (1 John 4:8). Thomas Aquinas does not simply equate charity with "love", which he holds as a passion, not a virtue.[5] The King James Version uses both the words charity and love to translate the idea of caritas/ἀγάπη (agapē): sometimes it uses one, then sometimes the other, for the same concept. Love can have other meanings in English, but as used in the New Testament it almost always refers to the virtue of caritas. "Love (Theological Virtue)".	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8056.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8056.txt