1 Peter 4:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4:8 —

Old words in this verse

charity: — love.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Colossians 3:14
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Proverbs 17:9
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
James 5:20
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

Topics

Anger Benevolence Brotherly Kindness Charitableness Charity Commandments Cruelty Discipleship

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-11)

We have here an awful position or doctrine, and an inference drawn from it. The position is that the end of all things is at hand. The miserable destruction of the Jewish church and nation foretold by our Saviour is now very near; consequently, the time of their persecution and your sufferings is but very short. Your own life and that of your enemies will soon come to their utmost period. Nay, the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. above all things--not that “charity” or love is placed above “prayer,” but because love is the animating spirit, without which all other duties are dead. Translate as Greek, “Having your mutual (literally, ‘towards yourselves’) charity intense.” He presupposes its existence among them; he urges them to make it more fervent. charity shall cover the multitude, &c.--The oldest manuscripts have “co…