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8/10 · strong
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. 6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. 11 When 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 set aside childish ways. 12 Now we see but a dim 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.
4/10 · fair
1 Let him that hath love in Christ fulfill the commandments of Christ. (1CL) 2 Who can declare the bond of the love of God? (1CL) 3 Who is sufficient to tell the majesty of its beauty? (1CL) 4 The height, where unto love exalteth, is unspeakable. (1CL) 5 Love joineth us unto God; love covereth a multitude of sins; love endureth all things, is long-suffering in all things. There is nothing coarse, nothing arrogant in love. Love hath no divisions, love maketh no seditions, love doeth all things in concord. In love were all the elect of God made perfect; without love nothing is well pleasing to God: (1CL) 6 in love the Master took us unto Himself; for the love which He had toward us, Jesus Christ our Lord hath given His blood for us by the will of God, and His flesh for our flesh and His life for our lives. (1CL)
5/10 · good
58 Ye see, therefore, my children, what great things I endured that I should not put my brethren to shame. (T12) 59 Do ye also, therefore, love one another, and with long-suffering hide ye one another's faults. (T12) 60 For God delighteth in the unity of brethren, and in the purpose of a heart that takes pleasure in love. (T12)
6/10 · good
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds— 3 He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion, 5 who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 6 The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed. 7 He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel. 8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. 9 He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.
4/10 · fair
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
4/10 · fair
12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
3/10 · fair
2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
3/10 · fair
8 Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
3/10 · fair
31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
4/10 · fair
134 and patient, in that he is patient with those who have sinned, since they are his creatures; (WEB) 135 and bountiful, in that he is ready to give rather than to take away; (WEB) 136 and very merciful, in that he multiplies more and more mercies to those who are present, and who are past, and also to those who are to come— (WEB) 137 for if he wasn’t merciful, the world wouldn’t continue with those who dwell in it— (WEB) 138 and one who forgives, for if he didn’t forgive out of his goodness, that those who have committed iniquities might be relieved of them, not even one ten thousandth part of mankind would remain living; (WEB) 139 and a judge, for if he didn’t pardon those who were created by his word, and blot out the multitude of sins, (WEB)