- So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
- Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
- Let all that you do be done in love.
- Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.
- And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
- So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
- If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
- If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
- We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
- And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
- Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
- For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
- Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.Next verse!With image