25 Bible Verses About Being Rude (NIV)

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

¹ If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. ⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. ⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹² Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. ¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

³¹ The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

¹⁷ Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

³⁹ And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

⁴ Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

³¹ So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

⁴⁰ But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.

²² But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca, 'is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell.

¹ A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

¹² Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

³¹ Do to others as you would have them do to you.

¹⁸ Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

¹⁵ "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.

¹² So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

¹⁸ Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

⁸ Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

³¹ Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. ³² Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

²⁷ Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith.

¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

²⁷ "But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,