12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
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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, …
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12)Here is, 1. The great mischief-maker, and that is malice. Even where there is no manifest occasion of strife, yet hatred seeks occasion and so stirs it up and does the devil’s work. Those are the most spiteful ill-natured people that can be who take a pleasure in setting their neighbours together by the ears, by tale-bearing, evil surmises, and misrepresentations, blowing up the sparks of contenti…
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