Bible Verses about “tough love”

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”

“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”

“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”

“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”

“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”

“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”

“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.”

“"Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.”

“Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.”

“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”

“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 don't have love, I am nothing.”

“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”

“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”

“knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.”

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,”

“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”

“Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

“Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.”

“For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.”

“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.”

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.”

“for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

“Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?”

“If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.”

“You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.”

“Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?”

“"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.”

“But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.”

“But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.”

“But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.”

“Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.”

“"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.”

“Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”

“But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.”

“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”

“For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;”

“for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.”

“He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”

“For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.”

“Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.”

“Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?'”

“Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'”

“I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.”

“"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”

“By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?”