1 Corinthians 13:7
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Cross-reference
1 Corinthians 9:18-22 shows Paul becoming all things to all people — a practical outworking of love bearing and enduring all.
Genesis 29:20 shows Jacob's love making seven years of labor feel like days — love bears and hopes through hardship.
Paul's endurance of persecutions exemplifies love's 'endures all things' — a concrete model of steadfast love.
2 Timothy 2:3-10 urges endurance like a soldier and Paul's own suffering for the elect — love endures all for others' sake.
2 Thessalonians 1:4 commends perseverance in persecutions — love endures all things for the faith.
Galatians 6:2 commands bearing one another's burdens, directly implementing the 'bears all things' aspect of love.
2 Corinthians 11:8-12 recounts Paul's sacrificial labor for the Corinthians — love bears all burdens for others.
Romans 15:1 calls the strong to bear with the weak, a concrete application of love bearing all things in community.
Matthew 10:22 promises salvation to those who endure to the end — love's endurance is tested in persecution.
Song of Solomon 8:7 affirms that many waters cannot quench love, directly paralleling love's endurance and bearing all things.
Proverbs 10:12 says love covers all offenses — a close parallel to love bearing all things in this verse.
Job 13:15 declares hope in God even if He slays — the ultimate expression of love that hopes and endures all.
1 Peter 4:8 says love covers a multitude of sins, a direct parallel to love's bearing all things without exposing faults.
Do not gloat over an enemy's fall — love does not rejoice in wrongdoing, aligning with 'bears all things'.
Love is the first fruit of the Spirit — this provides the broader context for love's attributes.
Bearing with one another in love directly parallels 'bears all things' — a practical command for community.
The promise for those who remain steadfast under trial connects to love's endurance — trial tests love.
Hebrews 10:36 urges endurance to receive the promise, echoing love's quality of enduring all things in 1 Cor 13:7.
Revelation 2:3 commends the church's patient endurance for Christ's name, paralleling love's endurance of all things.
Hebrews 11:27 shows Moses' endurance by faith, reflecting the endurance that love embodies in 1 Cor 13:7.
Timothy is told to endure suffering — this mirrors love's endurance, applying it to ministry.
Deuteronomy 1:9 records Moses saying he is unable to bear the people — a human limitation set against love's endurance.
Numbers 11:12-14 has Moses admitting he cannot bear the people alone — contrasting with love that bears all things.