SCRIPTURE HELP FOR QUALITY ROMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS
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Are you Able to Apologize? - Regretful acknowledgement of fault or offense.
Matthew 5:23-26
Ephesians 4:26
Why Should We Ask For Forgiveness?
Guilt, Apologies and Forgiveness
Repentance, Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Condemnation
Are you Affectionate? - To show loving and tender feeling towards another.
See the ideas for showing affection and love on Page 1.
Are you Appreciative? - Recognizing the quality, significance, value and magnitude of your loved one. Also your expression of graditude.
See the ideas for showing appreciation and love on Page 1.
Are you Charming? - To please, delight, beguile, captivate, bewitch, enchant, entrance and facinate.
Are you Clever? - Mentally quick and original, bright, ingenious and shrewd.
Are you Comforting? - To soothe in time of affliction or stress, to ease physically or relieve, console and give solace.
Are you Compatible? - Capable of existing in harmonious, agreeble or congenial combination with another.
Are you Complimentary? - An expression of praise, admiration, congratulations, regard, courtesy, good wishes or respect. To show fondness by giving a gift or performing a favor.
Ephesians 4:31
Politeness and Compliments
Are you Concerned? - Interested and Involved. Regard for and interested in.
Are you Considerate? - Having regard for the needs or feelings of others.
Are you Creative? - Artistic or imaginative effort characterized by originality and expressiveness.
Are you Empathetic? - Identification with or understanding of another's situation, feelings or motives.
To emphathize is to forgive.
Are you Encouraging? - To inspire with courage, confidence and hope. To cheer, hearten and give support to.
Are you Forbearing? - To be tolerant and patient in the face of provocation.
Ephesians 4:2
Are you Forgiving? - To excuse for a fault or offense. To renounce anger or resentment against.
Matthew 5:23-26
Luke 17:3-4
Ephesians 4:26
Why Should We Ask For Forgiveness?
Guilt, Apologies and Forgiveness
Repentance, Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Condemnation
Take a leaf out of the Big Book.
It's for our own good.
It's a commandment.
To emphathize is to forgive.
Are you Funny? - Causing laughter or amusement.
Are you Generous? - Liberal in sharing and giving. Magnanimous.
1 Corinthians 13:3
Are you Gentle? - Considerate or kindly in disposition. Amiable and tender.
Galatians 5:22
Are you Giving? - To make a present or gift to. To entrust oneself. To devote onself completely.
See the ideas for showing affection and love on Page 1.
Applying the law of Giving.
Are you Good at Listening? - To make an effort to hear. To pay attention, to heed.
Listening is a Gift.
Are you Good at Remembering? - To keep in mind as worthy of recall, recognition or consideration.
Are you Good at Surprising Your Loved One? - To cause to feel wonder, astonishment or amazement, as at something unanticipated.
Are you Good at Taking Criticism? - To judge the merits and faults of. Analyze and evaluate.
Are you Good Natured? - Fundamental character or disposition, temperament. Essential characteristics or qualities. The natural or real aspect of a person.
Are you Helpful? - To assist, aid, promote, relieve and promote.
The Gift of a Favor.
Are you Honest? - Displaying integrity, upright. Characterized by truth, not false. Not deceptive or fraudulent. Sincere, honorable, genuine. Of good repute, respectable.
Ephesians 4:25
1 Corinthians 13:6
Are you Humble? - Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude or spirit. Not arrogant or prideful.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Are you Humorous? - The ability to perceive, enjoy or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous or absurd.
Are you Insightful? - The capacity to discern the true nature of a situation. Perceptive.
Are you Interested? - Having or showing curiosity, fascination or concern.
Are you Joyful? - Feeling, causing or indicating intense or especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, pleasure or satisfaction.
Nehemiah 8:10
Galatians 5:22
Are you Kind? - Of a friendly, generous or warm-hearted nature. Showing sympathy or understanding. Charitable. Humane, considerate. Forbearing, tolerant.
Ephesians 4:32
1 Corinthians 13:4
Are you Longsuffering? - Patiently enduring wrongs or difficulties.
Ephesians 4:2
1 Corinthians 13:4
Are you Loving? - Exhibiting a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection or solicitude toward to person. Recognition of attractive qualities or a sense of underlying oneness.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Galatians 5:22
Colossians 3:19
Are you Loyal? - Faithful. Steadfast in allegiance.
Are you Motivated and Motivating? - To provide with incentive; move to action; impel.
Are you Open? - Characterized by a lack of pretense or reserve. To speak freely and candidly. More responsive or understanding; receptive.
Are you Patient? - Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation or annoyance with calmness. Tolerant, understanding. Not hasty or impulsive. Persevering or constant.
Psalms 27:14
Are you Playful? - Full of fun and high spirits. Humorous, jesting. Mischieveous. Impish - suggests a appealingly bold and devilish or rascally quality. Frolicsome - suggests high-spirited, carefree and uninhibited merriment.
Loosen Up!
Are you Polite? - Showing consideration of others; tact. Mannerly, civil, courteous, genteel, refinement.
Men, Women and Politeness
Are you Protective? - To guard. To keep from being damaged, attacked, stolen or injured.
Are you Proud of Your Loved One? - Feeling pleasureable satisfaction over a relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth.
Are you Relaxing? - To relieve from tension or strain. To become less severe or strict. To take one's ease or rest.
Matthew 11:28
Are you Rigid or Able to Bend? - Not flexible or pliant, stiff. Able to make a concession; yield.
Are you Sharing? - To participate in, use, enjoy or experience jointly with another.
Are you Spontaneous? - Unconstrained and unstudied in manner or behaviour. Arising from a natural inclination or impulse and not from external incitement or constraint.
Are you Steadfast? - Firmly loyal or constant; unswerving. Fixed or unchanging.
Are you Supportive? - Furnishing assistance. To keep from weakening or failing; strengthen.
Are you Sympathetic? - Mutual understanding or affection arising from a relationship or affinity between people in which whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other. Compassion or commiseration.
Are you Tender? - Considerate and protective; solicitous. Characterized by or expressing gentle emotions; loving.
Are you Thankful For Your Loved One? - Aware and appreciative of; grateful.
Are you Thoughtful? - Having or showing heed for the well-being or happiness of others and a propensity for anticipating their needs or wishes.
Are you Trusting? - To have or place confidence in; depend on. To expect with assurance. To have faith, confidence, reliance, dependence. Denotes a feeling of certainty that a person (or thing) will not fail.
1 Corinthians 13:5,7
Are you Trustworthy? - Reliable; dependable.
Are you Uncritical? - Not inclined to judge severely or find fault. Not censorious, condemning or faultfinding.
Ephesians 4:31
On Condemnation
Are you Understanding? - A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings or thoughts of others; sympathy; tolerance; compassion. Characterized by or having comprehension, good sense or discernment. To know thoroughly by close contact or long experience with.
1 Corinthians 13:20
Are you Unselfish? - Generous or altruistic. Not concerned chiefly or only with oneself.
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