[a]Love [b]suffereth long: it is bountiful: love envieth not: love doth not boast itself: it is not puffed up:

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:4 He describeth the force and nature of charity, partly by a comparison of contraries, and partly by the effects of itself: whereby the Corinthians may understand, both how profitable it is in the Church, and how necessary and also how far they are from it: and therefore how vainly and without cause they are proud.
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:4 Word for word deferreth wrath.

[a]But above all things have fervent love among you: (A)for love shall cover the multitude of sins.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:8 He commendeth charity of one toward another, because it doth as it were bury a multitude of sins, and therefore preserveth and maintaineth peace and concord: for they that love one another, do easily forgive one another their offense.

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