1 Corinthians 13:4
Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,
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Genesis 37:11And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.
1 Samuel 25:33And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
Nehemiah 9:17and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.
Proverbs 10:12Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.
Proverbs 17:9He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.
Proverbs 19:22The charm of a man is his kindness; and a poor [man] is better than a liar.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 13:2-4
On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Here the apostle shows… Read the whole commentary →