4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. …
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-7)The apostle gives us in these verses some of the properties and effects of charity, both to describe and commend it, that we may know whether we have this grace and that if we have not we may fall in love with what is so exceedingly amiable, and not rest till we have obtained it. It is an excellent grace, and has a world of good properties belonging to it. As, I. It is long suffering — makrothymei…
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