1 Corinthians 13:7

Love, The More Excellent Way

⁶ does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

All Things

Bears All Things

Endures All Things

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1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,

Genesis 29:20

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Numbers 11:12-14

Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?'

Deuteronomy 1:9

I spoke to you at that time, saying, "I am not able to bear you myself alone:

Job 13:15

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Psalm 119:66

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Song of Songs 8:6-7

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.

Matthew 10:22

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

Luke 7:37-39

And suddenly, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

Luke 7:44-46

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

Luke 19:4-10

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

Romans 15:1

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

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:18-22

What then is my reward? That, when I proclaim the Good News, I may present the Good News without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

2 Corinthians 11:8-12

I robbed other churches, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

Galatians 6:2

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

2 Thessalonians 1:4

so that we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

2 Timothy 2:3-10

You therefore must share in hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:24

The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.

2 Timothy 4:5

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

Hebrews 13:13

Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to those who love him.

1 Peter 2:24

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by his stripes you were healed.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.