Love is Patient Bible Verse

Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 04/12/2019
Love is Patient Bible Verse

Love is Patient Bible Verse Scripture Quotes about Love and Patience

The famous Bible Verse stating "Love is Patient" comes from 1 Corinthians 13:4 as the full verse says, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."

This is likely the most well known Bible verse about love but there are many more throughout the Word of God. The full Chapter 13 from 1 Corinthians gives an excellent explanation of the nature and importance of love:

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If 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 do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 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. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 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 put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a 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. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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