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Summary: What is love? Can you say that your love is pure? How you can describe love? There is no jealousy in love. Love is kind, and when you're in love you're kind. So, if you're not, don't call it love.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love is patient. Love actively waits for others without resentment.

Some people say that why should I take the first step to make the settlement, I got hurt and the other person should be sorry. This would include being patient in the face of being hurt or mistreated.

Love is kind. Beyond mere politeness, kindness involves acting for the good of others even when it does not benefit ourselves. Love never shows ego, love is kind. If you love someone and you apologize first that makes you kind. If you're bending to save your relation, you're kind. Jesus came to save us. He took all our mistakes, He gave us freedom. Why? Because He loved us. He forgive us because He loves us.

Love does not envy. Envy was alive and active in the Corinthian church, perhaps including the envy of the spiritual gifts and financial success of others. Very first verse of EXODUS 20:3 says that, "You shall have no other gods before me." ,Because our God doesn't want us to go to somewhere else. When we love someone we get uncomfortable when we see them with someone else.

Love sets self aside and celebrates the successes of Christian brothers and sisters. As we get happy for ourselves and for our family when we grow, same way we should be happy when a person we love grows.

Love does not boast. Boasting is the work of self-promotion in obvious and subtle ways.

Love quits that job and goes to work praising God and other believers, instead. Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever. 1 PETER 5:7 says that, "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

Love is not arrogant or "puffed up." Arrogance involves confidence in oneself above all others and the expectation that everyone else should feel the same way. Are you able to apologize? or somewhere you're stuck between If I'll apologize my partner will be praised that he/she won? Do not be arrogant. A sorry, an apology will never let you down because in PROVERBS 15:18 it is written as "A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict,

but the one who is patient calms a quarrel."

Love removes the obstacle of self from the purpose of serving others well.

Choosing to love each other in this way would solve many of the problems Paul has confronted in this letter. The spiritual gifts provide a glimpse of what is knowable, but when the perfect comes, we will know all. Love is the greatest of all the virtues.

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