• patience - uncomplaining endurance, tender, diligent, demonstrating quiet
• kindness - considerate behavior, good-hearted, loving
• unboastful - non vain talk or bragging about possessions, deeds
• nonprideful - healthy self-respect without elevation
• not rude - stay civil, skilled, trained, without being harsh
• not self-seeking - to promote characteristics of others
• slow to anger - to not give in to sudden feelings of anger or antagonism
• let's go of being wronged - the wrong estimate or inappropriations
• no delighting in iniquity - to avoid silent pleasure at another's down fall
• rejoicing with truth - express the character of joy of being true in relation
• always protects - to shield and defend another
• always trusts - confidant reliance on the integrity, honesty of another
• always hopes - to desire with expectation of fulfillment
• always perseveres - to continue in spite of difficulties

~Have you ever noticed that patience is invisible?  You don't really know when it starts but it surely can be felt when somebody stops practicing it on you.  It's the same with kindness.  It seems easier to know when somebody stopped walking in love toward you than when they started doing it.  Even when they stop doing it and they are all upset with you, it is just another segment to allow patience (love) in again.  It's like we have to keep running back to this list to keep the peace between us because prophecies, or right and wrong, they still will all fail... when you only know one part of the story because of knowing only in part (1 Cor 13:9) even that part is done away with once you begin to walk in love again (v10) because Love is still the more excellent way (1 Cor 12:31).  It's Face to Face  1 Cor 13:12.