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.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Pet 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
• Eph 4:32And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
• Gal 5:21–22envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
• Prov 10:12Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
• Col 3:12Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
• 1 Jn 4:11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
• Prov 17:9He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
• Jas 3:14–17But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
• 1 Jn 3:16–18By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• Luke 6:35–36But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
• 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• Eph 4:2with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
• 2 Cor 6:6in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
• Prov 19:22That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.
• Eccl 7:8–9Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
• Gal 5:26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
• 2 Tim 4:2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
• Col 1:11strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
• 1 Cor 4:6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
• 2 Tim 3:10But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
• 1 Pet 2:1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• Prov 31:20She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
• Neh 9:17and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
• Prov 31:26She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.
• Phil 2:1–5If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
• Prov 13:10Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.
• Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
• Acts 7:9“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
• Ps 10:5His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
• Eccl 10:4If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
• 2 Tim 2:25in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
• 1 Tim 6:4he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
• 1 Cor 4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
• 1 Cor 8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• Rom 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
• Dan 3:19–22Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

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