Ephesians 5:9
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9 for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.(A)
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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4 [a]Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,(A) 5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,(B) 6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(C)
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- 13:4–7 This paragraph is developed by personification and enumeration, defining love by what it does or does not do. The Greek contains fifteen verbs; it is natural to translate many of them by adjectives in English.
2 Corinthians 6:6
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6 [a]by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in a holy spirit, in unfeigned love,(A)
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- 6:6–7a A list of virtuous qualities in two groups of four, the second fuller than the first.
1 Timothy 4:12
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12 Let no one have contempt for your youth,[a] but set an example for those who believe, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.(A)
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- 4:12 Youth: some commentators find this reference a sign of pseudepigraphy. Timothy had joined Paul as a missionary already in A.D. 49, some fifteen years before the earliest supposed date of composition.
2 Peter 1:6
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6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion,
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