Love’s Attributes

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does...

Yet I hold this against you: you have forsaken the love you had at first. Revelations 2:4 These words are strong and imply that the church at Ephesus, to whom they were addressed, was...

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. 1 John 4:18 Fear is...

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 I call this chapter of John’s first letter the “love’ chapter. It is full of...

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world – the lust of the flesh,...

Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around...

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against...

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their...

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced, that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but...

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps...