Bible verses about "virtues" | WPNT

¹³ For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.

⁵ So for this very reason, making every effort, to your faith add excellence, and to the excellence knowledge,

³⁸ So Peter said to them: “Repent and be baptized, each one of you, upon the name of Jesus Christ, for forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹ If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud, ⁵ is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious; ⁶ it does not take pleasure in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷ it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all; ⁸ love never fails. Now as for prophecies, they will be set aside; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded; ⁹ since we know in part and prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But whenever the complete should come, then the ‘in part’ will be done away with. ¹¹ (When I was a small child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; but when I became a man, I put away the things of the child.) ¹² Because now we see blurred images as in a metal mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also am fully known. ¹³ For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.

¹² Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, put on hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience;

¹ Simon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained with us the same kind of faith in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: ² may grace and peace be multiplied to you through a real knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus, ³ in that His divine power has granted to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the real knowledge of the One who called us by glory and excellence, ⁴ through which He has granted to us such precious and extraordinary promises, so that through these you may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped the depravity that is in the world because of lust. ⁵ So for this very reason, making every effort, to your faith add excellence, and to the excellence knowledge, ⁶ and to the knowledge self-control, and to the self-control perseverance, and to the perseverance godliness, ⁷ and to the godliness brotherly affection, and to the brotherly affection love. ⁸ Because with these things existing and increasing in you, it makes you to be neither useless nor unfruitful in the real knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he who lacks these things is blind, being so myopic, having forgotten the cleansing from his past sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, you should be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble. ¹¹ Because in this way you will be granted the abundant entrance into the unending kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are commendable—whatever is of excellent character and whatever is praiseworthy—ponder these things.