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"'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
What is my strength, that I should wait?And what is my end, that I should be patient?
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning,and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
We love because he first loved us.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
For great is your steadfast love toward me;you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
"If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.