1 Corinthians 13:13

Love, The More Excellent Way

¹² Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. ¹³ Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Greatest of These is Love

Have Faith

O God

Galatians 5:6

for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love.

1 Corinthians 3:14

If what a person has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But anyone who loves God is known by him.

1 Corinthians 13:1-8

If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Keep on pursuing love, and keep on desiring spiritual gifts, especially the ability to prophesy.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Everything you do should be done lovingly.

2 Corinthians 5:10

For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of the Messiah, so that each of us may receive what he deserves for what he has done in his body, whether good or worthless.

2 Corinthians 5:15

He died for all people, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the one who died and rose for them.

Galatians 5:13-22

For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.

Philippians 1:9

And this is my prayer, that your love will keep on growing more and more with full knowledge and insight,

Colossians 1:5

based on the hope laid up for you in heaven. Some time ago you heard about this hope through the word of truth, the gospel

Colossians 1:27

to whom God wanted to make known the glorious riches of this secret among the gentiles which is the Messiah in you, our glorious hope.

Colossians 3:14

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which ties everything together in unity.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let's be sober. We must put on the breastplate of faith and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

1 Timothy 1:5

The goal of this instruction is love that flows from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but one of power, love, and self-discipline.

Hebrews 6:11

But we want each of you to continue to be diligent to the very end, in order to give full assurance to your hope.

Hebrews 6:19

That hope, firm and secure like an anchor for our souls, reaches behind the curtain

Hebrews 10:35

So don't lose your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you.

Hebrews 10:39-7

Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

1 Peter 1:21

Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

1 John 2:10

The person who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no reason for him to stumble.

1 John 2:14

I have written to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, because you are strong and because God's word remains in you and you have overcome the evil one.

1 John 2:24

What you have heard from the beginning must abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you will also abide in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure.

1 John 3:9

No one who has been born from God practices sin, because God's seed abides in him. Indeed, he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born from God.

1 John 4:7-18

Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.

1 John 5:1-5

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.

2 John 1:4-6

I was overjoyed to find some of your children living truthfully, just as the Father has commanded us.

Psalm 42:11

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for once again I will praise him, since his presence saves me and he is my God.

Psalm 43:5

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will praise him once again, since his presence saves me and he is my God. To the Director: An instruction of the Sons of Korah.

Psalm 146:5

Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

Lamentations 3:21-26

This is what comes to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Mark 12:29-31

Jesus answered, "The most important is, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,

Luke 8:13-15

The ones on the stony ground are the people who joyfully welcome the word when they hear it. But since they don't have any roots, they believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away.

Luke 10:27

He answered, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind. And you must love your neighbor as yourself."

Luke 22:32

but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail. When you have come back, you must strengthen your brothers."

Romans 5:4-5

endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

Romans 8:24-25

For we were saved with this hope in mind. Now a hope that can be observed is not really hope, for who hopes for what can be seen?

Romans 15:13

Now may God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.