Bible Verses about 'Love is patient'
- Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
- Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
- Whoever is patient has great understanding,
but one who is quick-tempered displays folly. - Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
- Better a patient person than a warrior,
one with self-control than one who takes a city. - Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
- Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
- May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
- There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
- Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
- And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
- If you love me, keep my commands.
- Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
- We love because He first loved us.
- To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
- Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
- My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
- And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands. - Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
- Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its jealousy unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame. - Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
- A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Do everything in love.
- Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
- Hatred stirs up conflict,
but love covers over all wrongs. - For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
- To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
- For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- But from everlasting to everlasting
the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children’s children—
with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts. - Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
- Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
- This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- Great peace have those who love your law,
and nothing can make them stumble. - Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
- Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
- And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
- Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
- By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
- The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love. - Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever. - Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
- Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
- When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your unfailing love, Lord, supported me.
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.