1 Peter 4:8
But, above all things, have fervent love one for another; for love will cover a multitude of sins.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
7But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.
9Be hospitable, one to another, without murmuring.
Cross References
Colossians 3:14and over all these put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
1 Thessalonians 4:9But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
1 Timothy 1:5(Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of faith unfeigned:
James 5:12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, either by heaven, or by the earth, or with any other oath: but let your yes, be yes, and your no, be no, lest you fall into condemnation.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 4:8-12
Sobriety, Watchfulness, and Charity; Improvement of Talents. ( a. d. 66.) 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging. 10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man… Read the whole commentary →