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

It doth [c]no uncomely thing: it seeketh not her own thing: it is not provoked to anger: it thinketh no evil:

It rejoiceth not in iniquity, but [d]rejoiceth in the truth:

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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.
  3. 1 Corinthians 13:5 It is not contumelious.
  4. 1 Corinthians 13:6 Rejoice that righteousness in the righteous. For the Hebrews mean by truth, righteousness.

Love is patient,(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(B) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(C) it is not easily angered,(D) it keeps no record of wrongs.(E) Love does not delight in evil(F) but rejoices with the truth.(G)

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