1 Corinthians 13:7

Love, The More Excellent Way

⁶ it does not rejoice in evil, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

All Things

Bears All Things

Endures All Things

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1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Luke 7:37-39

And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of perfume,

Luke 7:44-46

Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head.

Luke 19:4-10

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.

Romans 8:24

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

Romans 15:1

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others share this right of support from you, do not we all the more? Nevertheless, we did not make use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:18-22

What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my right in the gospel.

2 Corinthians 11:8-12

I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.

2 Timothy 2:3-10

Share in hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:24

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome, but he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, patient when wronged,

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

2 Timothy 4:5

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Hebrews 13:13

Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, hold unfailing your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.