Bible verses about "virtues" | Godbey

¹³ But now abide faith, hope, divine love, these three; but the greatest of these is divine love.

⁵ And in harmony with this same thing also, add to your faith heroism; and to heroism, knowledge;

³⁸ And Peter said to them, Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹ If I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ² And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not divine love, I am nothing. ³ And if I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing. ⁴ Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ does not behave itself uncomely, seeks not its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but it rejoices in the truth; ⁷ it bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things. ⁸ Divine love never falls: but whether there are prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away. ⁹ For we know in part, and prophesy in part: ¹⁰ but when the perfect may come, that which is in part shall be done away. ¹¹ When I was an infant, I talked like an infant, I thought like an infant, I reasoned like an infant: when I became a man, I put away the things of the infant. ¹² For we now see through a mirror in an enigma; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know perfectly even as I am perfectly known. ¹³ But now abide faith, hope, divine love, these three; but the greatest of these is divine love.

¹² Therefore, as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on affections of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

¹ Simon Peter, the servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those receiving like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. ² Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the perfect knowledge of Jesus Christ, our Lord. ³ As His divine power having given unto us all things which appertain to life and godliness, through the perfect knowledge of the one having called us to his own glory and virtue: ⁴ through which precious and greatest promises have been given unto us; that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world through lust. ⁵ And in harmony with this same thing also, add to your faith heroism; and to heroism, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge holiness; and to holiness patience; and patience, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness divine love. ⁸ For these things, being in you and overflowing, render you neither barren nor unfruitful in the perfect knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ for he unto whom these things are not present is blind, not seeing afar off, having received the forgetfulness of his purgation from his old sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, be the more diligent to make your calling and election sure: for doing these things you can never fall. ¹¹ For in this way an entrance will be administered unto you abundantly into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

⁸ Finally, brethren, so many things as are true, so many things as are noble, so many things as are righteous, so many things as are pure, so many things as are lovely, so many things as are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think on these things.