1 Corinthians 13:7

Love, The More Excellent Way

⁶ She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth. ⁷ She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance. ⁸ Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.

All Things

Bears All Things

Endures All Things

No

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.

Matthew 10:22

And you will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name; but he who holds out to the End--he will be saved.

Luke 7:37-39

And there was a woman in the town who was a notorious sinner. Having learnt that Jesus was at table in the Pharisee's house she brought a flask of perfume,

Luke 7:44-46

Then turning towards the woman He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house: you gave me no water for my feet; but she has made my feet wet with her tears, and then wiped the tears away with her hair.

Luke 19:4-10

So he ran on in front and climbed up a mulberry tree to see Him; for He was about to pass that way.

Romans 8:24

It is *in hope* that we have been saved. But an object of hope is such no longer when it is present to view; for when a man has a thing before his eyes, how can he be said to hope for it?

Romans 15:1

As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If other teachers possess that right over you, do not we possess it much more? Yet we have not availed ourselves of the right, but we patiently endure all things rather than hinder in the least degree the progress of the Good News of the Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:18-22

What are my wages then? The very fact that the Good News which I preach will cost my hearers nothing, so that I cannot be charged with abuse of my privileges as a Christian preacher.

2 Corinthians 11:8-12

Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order to do you service.

Galatians 6:2

Always carry one another's burdens, and so obey the whole of Christ's Law.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

It so increases that we ourselves make honourable mention of you among the Churches of God because of your patience and faith amid all your persecutions and amid the afflictions which you are enduring.

2 Timothy 2:3-10

As a good soldier of Christ Jesus accept your share of suffering.

2 Timothy 2:24

and a bondservant of the Lord must not quarrel, but must be inoffensive towards all men, a skilful teacher, and patient under wrongs.

2 Timothy 3:11

and the persecutions and sufferings which I have endured; the things which happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. You know the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all.

2 Timothy 4:5

But as for you, you must exercise habitual self-control, and not live a self-indulgent life, but do the duty of an evangelist and fully discharge the obligations of your office.

Hebrews 13:13

Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, sharing the insults directed against Him.

James 1:12

Blessed is he who patiently endures trials; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the victor's crown--even the crown of Life--which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

1 Peter 2:24

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults.