Love is Patient, Love is Kind - Bible Verses

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 02/04/2015

God's word teaches us that love is patient and kind. If you are wondering how to show love or if something in a relationship is loving, these Bible verses will guide you toward the truth. The Bible says that God IS LOVE! The greatest example we have of love is Jesus Christ who laid down His own life for us.

The following Bible verses will show you how love is patient and kind, as well as many other examples of how true love is displayed. Apply these Biblical truths to your relationships and see how choosing to love others will increase intimacy, trust, and hope!

1 John 4:8

1 John 4:8
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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1 John 4:10

10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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1 John 4:12

12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
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1 John 4:20

20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
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1 Peter 4:8

Your Daily Verse - 1 Peter 4:8
8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
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Ephesians 4:2

Ephesians 4:2
2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
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John 13:35

Love One Another
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
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John 15:13

John 15:13 - Greater Love
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
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Mark 12:31

31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.”
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Proverbs 21:21

21 Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.
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Romans 13:10

10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
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Proverbs 3:3-4

3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
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1 John 4:18-19

You Are Loved - 1 John 4:18-19
18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us.
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Hebrews 13:1-2

1 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.
2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
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1 John 3:16-18

Love is...
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?
18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
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Ephesians 5:25-33

Husbands Love Wives
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—
30 for we are members of his body.
31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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1 Corinthians 13:4-13

1 Corinthians 13:12a
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 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.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
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 put the ways of childhood behind me.
12 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.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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