1 Corinthians 13:4-8
1599 Geneva Bible
4 [a]Love [b]suffereth long: it is bountiful: love envieth not: love doth not boast itself: it is not puffed up:
5 It doth [c]no uncomely thing: it seeketh not her own thing: it is not provoked to anger: it thinketh no evil:
6 It rejoiceth not in iniquity, but [d]rejoiceth in the truth:
7 It suffereth all things: it believeth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.
8 [e]Love doth never fall away, though that prophesyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or [f]knowledge vanish away.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:4 He describeth the force and nature of charity, partly by a comparison of contraries, and partly by the effects of itself: whereby the Corinthians may understand, both how profitable it is in the Church, and how necessary and also how far they are from it: and therefore how vainly and without cause they are proud.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4 Word for word deferreth wrath.
- 1 Corinthians 13:5 It is not contumelious.
- 1 Corinthians 13:6 Rejoice that righteousness in the righteous. For the Hebrews mean by truth, righteousness.
- 1 Corinthians 13:8 Again he commendeth the excellency of charity, in that that it shall never be abolished in the Saints, whereas the other gifts which are necessary for the building up of the Church, so long as we live here, shall have no place in the world to come.
- 1 Corinthians 13:8 The way to get knowledge by prophesying.
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