12 Hatred stirs up strife,
But (A)love covers all sins.

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12 Hatred stirs up conflict,
    but love covers over all wrongs.(A)

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And above all things have fervent love for one another, for (A)“love will cover a multitude of sins.”

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Above all, love each other deeply,(A) because love covers over a multitude of sins.(B)

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(A)Love suffers long and is (B)kind; love (C)does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not [a]puffed up; does not behave rudely, (D)does not seek its own, is not provoked, [b]thinks no evil; (E)does not rejoice in iniquity, but (F)rejoices in the truth; (G)bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:4 arrogant
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:5 keeps no accounts of evil

Love is patient,(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(B) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(C) it is not easily angered,(D) it keeps no record of wrongs.(E) Love does not delight in evil(F) but rejoices with the truth.(G) It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(H)

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(A)He who covers a transgression seeks love,
But (B)he who repeats a matter separates friends.

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Whoever would foster love covers over an offense,(A)
    but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.(B)

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18 (A)A wrathful man stirs up strife,
But he who is slow to anger allays contention.

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18 A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict,(A)
    but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.(B)

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20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way (A)will save [a]a soul from death and (B)cover a multitude of sins.

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  1. James 5:20 NU his soul

20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save(A) them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.(B)

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Pride Promotes Strife

Where do [a]wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure (A)that war in your members?

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  1. James 4:1 battles

Submit Yourselves to God

What causes fights and quarrels(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(B) within you?

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25 (A)He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife,
(B)But he who trusts in the Lord will be prospered.

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25 The greedy stir up conflict,(A)
    but those who trust in the Lord(B) will prosper.

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27 [a]An ungodly man digs up evil,
And it is on his lips like a burning (A)fire.

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  1. Proverbs 16:27 Lit. A man of Belial

27 A scoundrel(A) plots evil,
    and on their lips it is like a scorching fire.(B)

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22 (A)An angry man stirs up strife,
And a furious man abounds in transgression.

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22 An angry person stirs up conflict,
    and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.(A)

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