1 Corinthians 13:7

Love, The More Excellent Way

⁶ [it] does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth, ⁷ bears all [things], believes all [things], hopes all [things], endures all [things]. ⁸ Love never ends. But if [there are] prophecies, they will pass away. If [there are] tongues, they will cease. If [there is] knowledge, it will pass away.

All Things

Bears All Things

Endures All Things

No

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

Genesis 29:20

And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.

Numbers 11:12-14

Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them, that you could say to me, 'Carry them in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?'

Deuteronomy 1:9

"And I spoke to them at that time, {saying}, 'I am not able to bear you alone.

Job 13:15

Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.

Psalm 119:66

Teach me good discernment and knowledge, for I believe your commands.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers over all offenses.

Song of Songs 8:6-7

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love [is] strong as death; passion [is] fierce as Sheol; its flashes [are] flashes of fire; [it is] a blazing flame.

Matthew 10:22

and you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end--this one will be saved.

Luke 7:37-39

And behold, a woman in the town who was a sinner, [when she] learned that he was dining in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of perfumed oil,

Luke 7:44-46

And turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into 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.

Luke 19:4-10

And he ran on ahead [and] climbed up into a sycamore tree so that he could see him, because he was going to go through [that way].

Romans 8:24

For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

Romans 15:1

But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others share this right over you, do we not [do so] even more? Yet we have not made use of this right, but we endure all [things], in order that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:18-22

What then is my reward? That [when I] proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel free of charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

2 Corinthians 11:8-12

I robbed other churches [by] accepting support [from them] for the ministry to you.

Galatians 6:2

Carry the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

so that we ourselves boast in you in the churches of God about your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring,

2 Timothy 2:3-10

Suffer together with [me] as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:24

And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant,

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, [and] sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, [and] in Lystra, what sort of persecutions I endured, and the Lord delivered me from all [of them].

2 Timothy 4:5

But you, be self-controlled in all [things], bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Hebrews 13:13

So we must go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

James 1:12

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

1 Peter 2:24

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that [we] may die to sins [and] live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.