1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient and kind; it does not envy or boast and is not proud. Paul begins describing love by its concrete character.

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• 1 Pet 4:8And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
• Eph 4:32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
• Gal 5:21–22Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Prov 10:12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
• Col 3:12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
• 1 Jn 4:11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
• Prov 17:9He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
• Jas 3:14–17But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
• 1 Jn 3:16–18Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
• 2 Pet 1:7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• Luke 6:35–36But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
• 1 Th 5:14Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
• Eph 4:2With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
• 2 Cor 6:6By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
• Prov 19:22The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
• Eccl 7:8–9Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
• Gal 5:26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
• 2 Tim 4:2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
• Col 1:11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
• 1 Cor 4:6And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
• 2 Tim 3:10But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
• 1 Pet 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Prov 31:20She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
• Neh 9:17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
• Prov 31:26She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
• Phil 2:1–5If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
• Prov 13:10Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
• Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
• Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• 1 Cor 3:3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
• Ps 10:5His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
• Eccl 10:4If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
• 2 Tim 2:25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
• 1 Tim 6:4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• 1 Cor 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
• 1 Cor 8:1Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
• Rom 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Dan 3:19–22Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

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