A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible
- Issue of blood
- Jacob's ladder
- Jeremiad
- Jesus wept
- Jesus, Mary and Joseph
- Jezebel
- Job's comforters
- Jonah
- Jubilee
- Judas
- Keeping best until last
- Kicking against the pricks
- Kind word turns away anger
- Labourer is worthy of his hire
- Lamb to the slaughter
- Land flowing with milk and honey
- Land of Nod
- Last enemy
- Last trumpet
- Law of Medes and Persians
- Left hand not knowing what the right is doing
- Leopard can't change its spots
- Let my people go
- Let us now praise famous men
- Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' 'No'
- Leviathan
- Like mother, like daughter
- Lilies of the field
- Lion's den
- Little leaven
- Living dog is better than a dead lion
- Lost sheep
- Lot's wife
- Love covers a multitude of sins
- Love is ...
- Love strong as death
- Love thy neighbour
- Love your enemies
- Making bricks without straw
- Man after [someone's] own heart
- Man is born to trouble
- Man of sorrows
- Man shall not live by bread alone
- Manna [bread] from heaven
- Many are called, but few are chosen
- Many mansions
- Many waters cannot quench love
- Mark of Cain
- Mark of the Beast
- Mess of pottage
A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible: Love is ...
Usage
A popular cartoon clichéDefinition
Paul describes the love of God, agape, which is worked out and reproduced in Christians.
Bible References
1 Corinthians 13:4- English Standard Version
- King James Version
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The 'Apostle to the Gentiles' (d. c. CE 65). Paul had a major role in setting up the Early Church and is believed to be the author of several letters in the Bible.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
Used in the New Testament of God's love and of unselfish human love. Also the name given to shared meals held by Christians where people brought food to be shared with all according to need (Jude 12).
Name originally given to disciples of Jesus by outsiders and gradually adopted by the Early Church.
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