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[a]Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,(A) it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,(B) it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

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  1. 13:4–7 This paragraph is developed by personification and enumeration, defining love by what it does or does not do. The Greek contains fifteen verbs; it is natural to translate many of them by adjectives in English.

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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