1 Corinthians 13:4 (LSB)

Passage

Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous, does not brag, is not puffed up;

Nearby Context

1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous, does not brag, is not puffed up;

1 Corinthians 13:5 it does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered;

1 Corinthians 13:6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "love", "patient", "kind", "jealous", "does", "brag", and "puffed". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "love" and "patient", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "And if I give all my possessions..." into verse 5's "it does not act unbecomingly does not...", so "love" and "patient" belong inside that flow. In 1 Corinthians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "love" and "patient" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.