13 Bible Verses about Love As A Fruit Of The Spirit
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But the product of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.
I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another. By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."
and I made known to them your very self, and I will make you known still further, so that the love which you have shown to me may be felt in them, and I in union with them."
and hope never disappoints us; for through the Holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.
Your love must be true. You must always turn in horror from what is wrong, but keep on holding to what is right.
Love never does a wrong to one's neighbor; so love is the perfect satisfaction of the law.
Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride; It does not act with rudeness, or insist upon its rights; it never gets provoked, it never harbors evil thoughts; Is never glad when wrong is done, but always glad when truth prevails;read more.
It bears up under anything; it exercises faith in everything; it keeps up hope in everything; it gives us power to endure in anything. Love never fails; if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if now exist ecstatic speakings, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will soon be set aside; For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete. But when perfection comes, what is imperfect will be set aside. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways. For now we see a dim reflection in a looking-glass. But then we shall see face to face; Now what I know is imperfect, but then I shall know perfectly, as God knows me. And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."
You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.
By the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit we can be sure that we remain in union with Him and He in union with us.
So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.