7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
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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