Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.
being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated. And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace. Because the king's order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame? Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not reveal another's secret, lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end.
Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.” And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.’”
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.
For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.
Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand! For as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.”
Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good. God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”
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