Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 · Berean Standard Bible
'Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.' These verses from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 are the definition of love read at nearly every Christian wedding. The passage lists what love does and does not do, and ends with the promise that 'love bears all things... love never fails.' Here is the exact wording searchers are looking for, in context.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love 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.
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