14 Bible Verses about Love As A Fruit Of The Spirit
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But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
Hear me, O Jehovah, for Your loving-kindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love one another. By this all shall know that you are My disciples, if you have love toward one another.
And I made known to them Your name, and will make it known, so that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them.
And hope does not make us ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.
Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;
Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up; does not behave indecently, does not seek her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil. Charity does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,read more.
quietly covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Charity never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be abolished; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it will be abolished. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when the perfect thing comes, then that which is in part will be caused to cease. When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I did away with the things of an infant. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known. And now faith, hope, charity, these three remain; but the greatest of these is charity.
For, brothers, you were called to liberty. Only do not use the liberty for an opening to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
And we have known and believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.