1. Love never gives up
2. Love is patient.
3. Love cares more for others than it does for itself.
4. Love isn't always “me first.”
5. Love does not manipulate to bring about its own way.
6. Love is kind.
7. Love doesn't strut, brag, or boast.
8. Love doesn't have a swelled head, or act arrogant or proud.
9. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
10. Love is not jealous, it does not envy.
11. Love doesn't force itself on others, act unbecomingly, or act rudely.
12. Love doesn't fly off the handle.
13. Love is not easily provoked, angered, or irritable.
14. Love doesn't keep score of the sins of others, or remember a wrong suffered.
15. Love isn't resentful.
16. Love doesn't revel when others grovel, or take joy in someone else's misfortune.
17. Love doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, evil, or wrongdoing.
18. Love takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, the growth of things that are good.
19. Love delights when more good things happen to other people.
20. Love rejoices with the truth.
21. Love puts up with anything.
22. Love bears all things, it always protects.
23. Love trusts God always.
24. Love always looks for the best.
25. Love hopes all good things.
26. Love never looks back.
27. Love always perseveres, it keeps going until the end.
28. Love never fails.
Quite a telling silence.
ReplyDeleteI could pass #26 ("love never looks back").
ReplyDeleteOf course, this is mainly because I have a kink in my neck and it hurts to turn around...