⁸ Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.^(A)

²⁰ you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner’s^[a] soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.^(A)

Friendship with the World

4 Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?

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)