Bible verses about "defensive" | MSTC

¹⁶ Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

¹ Though I spake with the tongues of men and angels, and yet had no love, I were even as sounding brass: or as a tinkling cymbal. ² And though I could prophesy, and understood all secrets, and all knowledge: yea, if I had all faith so that I could move mountains out of their places, and yet had no love, I were nothing. ³ And though I bestowed all my goods to feed the poor, and though I gave my body even that I burned, and yet had no love, it profiteth me nothing. ⁴ Love suffereth long, and is courteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not forwardly, swelleth not, ⁵ dealeth not dishonestly, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh not evil, ⁶ rejoiceth not in iniquity: but rejoiceth in the truth, ⁷ suffereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth in all things. ⁸ Though that prophesying fail, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge vanish away: yet love falleth never away. ⁹ For our knowledge is unperfect, and our prophesying is unperfect: ¹⁰ but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is unperfect shall be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I imagined as a child: but as soon as I was a man I put away childishness. ¹² Now we see in a glass, even in a dark speaking: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know unperfectly: but then shall I know even as I am known. ¹³ Now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three: but the chief of these is love.