If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; 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. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.  1 Corinthians 13

1. Love is patient

2. Love is kind: 1 Cor. 13:4-7

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3. Love does not envy (not jealous)

a. Envy of the spiritual and temporal blessings of others: Gen. 4:3-8; Gen. 37:9-11, 18-20, 26-28; Acts 5:17-18

b. Envy over the spiritual gifts of others: 1 Cor. 12:4-11

4. Love does not boast

a. Refuses to draw attention to oneself in conversations: Prov. 27:2, Prov. 27:21

b. Refuses to draw attention to oneself in spiritual things: Luke 17:7-10, 1 Cor. 4:7, John 3:27, 1 Cor. 3:1-9