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1 Corinthians 13:4-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant(A) 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;(B) 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.(C) 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(D)
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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4 Love (A)is patient, love is kind, it (B)is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not (C)arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it (D)does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, (E)does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 (F)it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but (G)rejoices with the truth; 7 it [a](H)keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:7 Lit covers all things
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 [a]Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,(A) 5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,(B) 6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(C)
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- 13:4–7 This paragraph is developed by personification and enumeration, defining love by what it does or does not do. The Greek contains fifteen verbs; it is natural to translate many of them by adjectives in English.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
New International Version
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
New International Version
4 Love is patient,(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(B) 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(C) it is not easily angered,(D) it keeps no record of wrongs.(E) 6 Love does not delight in evil(F) but rejoices with the truth.(G) 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(H)
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