1. What Love Does
4 Love is patient and kind . . . 1 Corinthians 13:4 (ESV)
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. Psalm 103:8 (ESV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)
2. What Love Does Not Do
4 . . . love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
1 Corinthians 13:4–6 (ESV)
97 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Psalm 119:97 (ESV)
8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8
3. How Love Elevates
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:7 (ESV)
35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:35 (ESV)
31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:31 (ESV)
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 1 John 4:7-9 (ESV)