Passage

Love described through actions

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

⁴Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
⁵doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
⁶doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:4–7World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The passage describes love through patience and kindness, then through things it does not do: boast, insist on its own way or rejoice in wrongdoing.

To understand

The description moves between conduct, responses to others and persistence. It gives the reader verbs and habits rather than a scene of romantic attraction.

A question

Which of these descriptions concerns how someone responds to another person?