1 Corinthians 13:4
Love, is patient, is gracious. Love, is not envious, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Genesis 37:11Then were his brethren jealous of him, but his father, marked the word.
1 Samuel 25:33and, blessed, be thy discreet judgment, and, blessed, be thou thyself,—who hast kept me, this day, from coming in with bloodshed, and from saving myself, with mine own hand.
Nehemiah 9:17but refused to hearken, neither kept in mind thy wonders which thou hadst done with them, but they hardened their neck, and appointed a head that they might return to their servitude, in their perverseness. But, thou, art a God of forgivenesses, gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness, and didst not forsake them.
Proverbs 10:12Hatred, stirreth up strifes, but, over all transgressions, love throweth a covering.
Proverbs 17:9He that hideth a transgression, seeketh love, but, he that repeateth a matter, separateth intimate friends.
Proverbs 19:22The charm of a man, is his lovingkindness,—and better a poor man, than one who deceiveth.
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 →