What does the Bible say about love is patient?
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The Bible teaches that true love is patient, bearing with others in humble, steadfast care because it reflects God’s own character and work in His people. In 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Paul describes love as patient and kind, not self-seeking or resentful, but enduring in hope and faith. This love is more than warm feeling or religious speech; 1 John 3:18 calls believers to love in deed and truth. Patient love is produced by the Holy Spirit, alongside kindness, peace, and self-control, as Galatians 5:22-23 teaches. Since God is love, Christians are called to forgive, cover offenses, and persevere with one another through Christ.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 17 votes
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 10 votes
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
- 1 John 3:18 6 votes
My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
- 1 Peter 4:8 6 votes
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
- 1 John 4:8 5 votes
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:7 4 votes
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 4 votes
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
- Galatians 5:22-23 3 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
- Proverbs 10:12 3 votes
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 3 votes
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
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