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12 Hatred stirs up disputes,
    (A) but love covers all offenses.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:12 Love covers all offenses: a favorite maxim in the New Testament; cf. 1 Cor 13:7; Jas 5:20; 1 Pt 4:8. Cf. also Prv 17:9.

12 Hatred stirs up conflict,
    but love covers over all wrongs.(A)

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(A)Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:8 Love covers a multitude of sins: a maxim based on Prv 10:12; see also Ps 32:1; Jas 5:20.

Above all, love each other deeply,(A) because love covers over a multitude of sins.(B)

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