1 Corinthians 13:7

Love, The More Excellent Way

⁶ Love finds no joy in unrighteousness
but rejoices in the truth.
⁷ It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never ends.
But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end;
as for languages, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

All Things

Bears All Things

Endures All Things

No

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

Genesis 29:20

So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

Numbers 11:12-14

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so You should tell me, ‘Carry them at your breast, as a nursing woman carries a baby,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

Deuteronomy 1:9

“I said to you at that time: I can’t bear the responsibility for you on my own.

Job 13:15

Even if He kills me, I will hope in Him.
I will still defend my ways before Him.

Psalm 119:66

Teach me good judgment and discernment,
for I rely on Your commands.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up conflicts,
but love covers all offenses.

Song of Songs 8:6-7

Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death;
ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames—
the fiercest of all.

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

Luke 7:37-39

And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of fragrant oil

Luke 7:44-46

Turning to the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she, with her tears, has washed My feet and wiped them with her hair.

Luke 19:4-10

So running ahead, he climbed up a sycamore tree to see Jesus, since He was about to pass that way.

Romans 8:24

Now in this hope we were saved, yet hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

Romans 15:1

Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more?

However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:18-22

What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authority in the gospel.

2 Corinthians 11:8-12

I robbed other churches by taking pay from them to minister to you.

Galatians 6:2

Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches—about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure.

2 Timothy 2:3-10

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:24

The Lord’s slave must not quarrel, but must be gentle to everyone, able to teach, and patient,

2 Timothy 3:11

along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

2 Timothy 4:5

But as for you, be serious about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Hebrews 13:13

Let us then go to Him outside the camp, bearing His disgrace.

James 1:12

A man who endures trials is blessed, because when he passes 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, having died to sins,
we might live for righteousness;
you have been healed by His wounds.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, maintain an intense love for each other, since love covers a multitude of sins.