13 Bible Verses about Love As A Fruit Of The Spirit
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But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.
I give you a new commandment--Love one another; love one another as I have loved you. It is by this that every one will recognize you as my disciples--by your loving one another."
I have made thee known to them, and will do so still; that the love that thou has had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also."
And that 'hope never disappoints.' For the love of God has filled our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given us;
Let your love be sincere. Hate the wrong; cling to the right.
Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly; Love is never self-seeking, never provoked, never reckons up her wrongs; Love never rejoices at evil, but rejoices in the triumph of Truth;read more.
Love bears with all things, every trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient. Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of 'tongues,' it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with. For our knowledge is incomplete, and our preaching is incomplete, But, when the Perfect has come, that which is incomplete will be done with. When I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways. As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then-face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I shall know in full, as I have been fully known. Meanwhile Faith, Hope, and Love endure-these three, but the greatest of these is Love.
Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit. Indeed, the whole Law has been summed up in this one precept- -'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'
Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her,
We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.
We know that we remain in union with him, and he with us, by this--by his having given us some measure of his Spirit.
And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
