Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
Charity
Patience
The last
General references
Bible References
Charity
1 Corinthians 13:1
If I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Colossians 3:14
and in all these things put on divine love, which is the bond of perfection.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But Timothy, having already come to us from you, and proclaimed to us the good news of your faith and your divine love, and that you always have a good mention of us, longing to see us, as we do to see you;
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as it is worthy, because your faith increases, and the divine love of each one of you all towards one another abounds more and more;
1 Timothy 1:5
but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy:
1 Peter 4:8
before all things having divine love stedfast toward one another; because divine love covers a multitude of sins:
2 Peter 1:7
and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness divine love.
Patience
Revelation 2:3
and you have patience and have borne with them for my name's sake, and have not fainted.
The last
Revelation 2:4
But I have something against you, because you have left your first love.
John 15:2
Every branch in me not producing fruit, He takes it away: and every one producing fruit, He purifies it, that it may produce more fruit.
2 Peter 3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of the age.
General references
Matthew 24:46
Happy is that servant whom, his lord having come, will find so doing.