- Love is patient
(because God is very patient with us)
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Love endures, holds out and lasts a long time.
Love is being very patient with others, believing that the best will
eventually come out.
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Love is being kind and reaching out to others
Love is not being mean
Love is not jealous, because someone else has something that you wished
you'd had or because you're worried that someone else will take something
that belongs to you (resist jealousy).
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- Love does NOT brag
(Jeremiah 9:23,24)
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Love is not boasting and bragging about what you have and about what
others do not have.
Love does not show off, because you have something that someone else does
not have.
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- Love is NOT blown up with pride
(because even Jesus humbled Himself and became obedient, even to the
point of going to the cross. And He did it because He loved us).
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Love is not bigheaded, arrogant, snobbish, stuck up, overconfident in
oneself, or has its nose up in the air , thinking that you're better than
someone else.
Love is not inflated (overblown) with pride.
Love does not step on people in order to make yourself feel better
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- Love is polite
God will not force His Love on you. He gives us the privilege of
choosing to do right or wrong
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Love has good manners
Love is not rude or impolite
Love acts correctly
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Love does not demand its own rights or way
Love is not self-seeking
Love is not selfish
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Love is not touchy, easily upset, or shows its annoyance at once.
Love is not fretful or easily irritated; worried or nervous.
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- Love keeps no record of wrongs.
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Love is not getting easily angry or bitter.
Love does not hold on to a wrong. Because if you don't let it
(bitterness) go, it (anger) will not let you go. It will make your life
miserable, it will make you it's slave. And you will eventually find
yourself lashing out and hurting the very people you love.
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- Love feels joy
when right wins
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Love rejoices when right and truth wins
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- Love holds up under anything
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Love holds up under anything and everything that comes at you, because it
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- Love thinks the best of others
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Love is ever ready to believe the best of every person |
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Love endures every thing without weakening
Love always wins
Love never fails
Love never comes to an end. God's love for you will never cease. |