What Does the Bible Say About Love Is Patient?

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 137 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 22 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

John 14:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 19 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

John 3:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 15:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

1 John 4:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Mark 12:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Romans 13:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

John 15:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Song of Solomon 1:1-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 John 4:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Matthew 26:39 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; ...

Psalm 137:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

John 13:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

41 Bible Verses about Love Is Patient

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 137 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 78 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:18 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:8 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 12:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 13:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 1:1-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 26:39 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 137:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 13:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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