Love


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1Joh4:8
God is love. 

 

 Love


1Joh3:16
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. 17If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 19This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence 20whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

21Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God 22and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. 23And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 24Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.


1Cor13:1
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.


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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.


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Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When 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 put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.


13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.


1Cor14:1
Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

 

 


Love people
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doing the following with sincerity and eagerness, earnestness:


Be kind and gentle, encouraging and building up.


Be gracious, humble, and submissive, honoring and esteeming others as better and more important than yourself.


Be considerate, quick to listen and slow to speak.


Be compassionate, merciful, and forgiving, empathetic and sympathetic.


Patiently bear with people, with long-suffering and tolerance.


Deny yourself to serve others, bear their burdens, give them your material things and yourself, please them and do good to them, seek their good, look to their interests.


Pray for people and show them the gospel.

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