1 Corinthians 13:7

Love bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things. It is resilient and steadfast in every circumstance.

Cross-references · 27

• 1 Pet 4:8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
• 1 Cor 13:4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
• 1 Pet 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
• 2 Tim 2:24And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.
• Prov 10:12Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
• Gal 6:2Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
• 1 Cor 9:12If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
• Song 8:6–7Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
• 2 Tim 4:5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
• 2 Tim 2:3–10Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
• Ps 119:66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments.
• 2 Th 1:4That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.
• Rom 15:1We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
• Matt 10:22You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
• 2 Tim 3:11my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
• Luke 7:44–46And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
• Gen 29:20So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
• Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
• Luke 19:4–10So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.
• 2 Cor 11:8–12I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.
• 1 Cor 9:18–22What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not use up my rights in preaching it.
• Heb 13:13Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.
• Rom 8:24For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
• Num 11:12–14Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?
• Luke 7:37–39When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.
• Deut 1:9At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.

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