12 Bible Verses about Love As A Fruit Of The Spirit
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But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,
For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.
I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another. By this everyone will recognize that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another."
so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."
Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.
Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs, is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, never resentful; love is never glad when others go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness,read more.
always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient. Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded. For we only know bit by bit, and we only prophesy bit by bit; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be superseded. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I argued like a child; now that I am a man, I am done with childish ways. At present we only see the baffling reflections in a mirror, but then it will be face to face; at present I am learning bit by bit, but then I shall understand, as all along I have myself been understood. Thus 'faith and hope and love last on, these three,' but the greatest of all is love.
Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love. For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.
This is how we may be sure we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us a share in his own Spirit;
well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.