1Cor 13:4-7, 2Cor 4:5, 12:15, 1Th 1:3, Jam 2:15-17, 1Jo 3:16-19 | ESV | STEP | Love is patient and kind ; love does not envy or boast ; it is not arrogant

4 ^aLove is patient and ^bkind; love ^cdoes not envy or boast; it ^dis not arrogant 5 or rude. It ^edoes not insist on its own way; it ^fis not irritable or resentful; ^{▼▼Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing} 6 it ^hdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ⁱrejoices with the truth. 7 ^jLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ^kendures all things.

2 Corinthians 4:5

5 For what ^lwe proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ^mourselves as your servants ^{▼▼Greek bondservants} for Jesus’ sake.

2 Corinthians 12:15

15 ^oI will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If ^pI love you more, am I to be loved less?

1 Thessalonians 1:3

3 remembering before ^qour God and Father ^ryour work of faith and labor of ^slove and ^tsteadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

James 2:15-17

15 ^uIf a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 ^vand one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good ^{▼▼Or benefit} is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

1 John 3:16-19

16 By this we know love, that ^xhe laid down his life for us, and ^ywe ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But ^zif anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet ^aacloses his heart against him, ^abhow does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not ^aclove in word or talk but in deed and ^adin truth.

19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;