Selfless love (1 Cor 13:4-7) is:
- Patient. The Greek word comes from two words meaning, "long-tempered."
- Kind. A person who is gentle, has an ability to soothe hurt feelings, to calm an upset person, to help quietly in practical ways...
- Not jealous.
- Not arrogant, does not brag.
- Not to act unbecomingly.
- Not to seek its own.
- Not provoked.
- Not to take into account a wrong suffered.
- Not to rejoice in unrighteousness but to rejoice in the truth.
- To bear all things.
- Believe all things.
- Hope all things.
- Endure all things.
- How does patience in love fit in with not tolerating sin? Does patience (even God's patience) have a limit?
- Love does not get provoked and yet God gets angry at our sin. How do you reconcile this? Is it wrong to get provoked about someone's sin?
- Love always trusts. But is it loving to trust a person who has repeatedly violated our trust? Where do you draw the line?
- What would you say to someone who said, "Love is more important than doctrinal purity"? Can we love apart from truth?
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