What Love Does and Does Not Do

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 is

Enduring (not fragile)

  • is patient (longsuffering)
  • bears all things
  • believes all things
  • hopes all things
  • endures all things

Humble (not proud)

  • not envious (or jealous)
  • not boastful (or proud)
  • not arrogant (or puffed up)
  • not rude (offending manners)
  • not insist on its own way (seeks not its own)
  • not irritable (not easily peeved)
  • not resentful (not keep an account of wrongs)
  • not rejoice at wrongdoing (not boast of licentious freedom)

Pro-kindness and truth

  • kind
  • rejoices with the truth (glad for the truth to advance)

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