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| Charity behavior is a form of prosocial behavior focused on
the giving of help to those in need. Originally in Latin the
word caritas meant preciousness, dearness, high price. From
this, in Christian theology, caritas became the standard Latin
translation for the Greek word agapē, meaning an unlimited
loving-kindness to all others, such as the love of God. This
much wider concept is the meaning of the word charity in the
Christian triplet "faith, hope and charity", and notably as used
by the King James Version of the Bible in its translation of St
Paul's Letter to the Corinthians. However the English word more
generally used for this concept, both before and since (and by
the KJV at other passages), is the more direct love. (See the
article Charity (virtue)) St Paul's agapē was specifically not
primarily about good works and giving to the poor. (And though I
feed the poor with all my g