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Love is patient and is kind; love doesn`t envy. Love doesn`t brag, is not proud,
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Commentators explain that this verse describes love not as a passive feeling, but as a set of active behaviors. It is expressed positively through long-suffering patience and active kindness. Negatively, it's defined by what it avoids: it doesn't envy others' success, boast about its own, or harbor internal arrogance. It's a practical guide to Christ-like conduct.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Charity suffereth long. Paul now proceeds to illustrate the nature of love, or to show how it is exemplified. His illustrations are all dr…
Verses 4-7 picture the character or conduct of love in marvellous rhapsody.
Suffereth long (μακροθυμε). Late Koine w…
19th Century
Anglican
Charity suffereth long—better, Love is long-suffering. Here follows a description of love. Descriptions of posit…
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Baptist
Always try to put the best construction on other people's actions and work. Let gentleness triumph.
Christian love is now described positively and negatively. Its positive characteristics are patience (slow to become resentful), kindness, delight …
16th Century
Protestant
Love is patient. He now commends love based on its effects or fruits, although at the same time these praises are not intended me…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Charity suffereth long The apostle, in this and some following verses, enumerates the several properties and charact…
Some of the effects of charity are stated, so that we may know whether we have this grace; and if we do not, that we may not rest until we have it.…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that charity is so necessary that without it no spiritual gifts are sufficient for salvation, the Apostle now shows that it is so use…
