Love is 14 things

Love is patient

Able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.

Love is kind

Desires to do good to others; goodwill and charitableness

Love does not envy

Does not get discontented or resentful because of desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to someone else

Love does not boast

Does not talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities.

Love is not proud

Does not show a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance as a result of one's own achievements, qualities, or possessions 

Love is not rude

Not offensively impolite or bad-mannered.

Love is not self-seeking

Not lacking consideration for other people and not concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

Love is not easily angered

Not lacking control over one’s emotions.

Love keeps no record of wrong

Forgives and forgets

Love does not rejoice in evil but rejoices with the truth

Supports the Word of God

Love always protects

Safeguards, shields, preserves, defends, cushions, shelters, secures, fortifies, guards, 

Love always trusts

Firmly believing in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something

Love always perseveres

Always persistent in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success

Love never fails

Never lacking, never missing, always succeeds.

‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. LOVE the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.

There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:29- 31

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