George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Peter 4:8
Charity covereth a multitude of sins. It is a great means to atone for them; or it may signify, that a charitable mind excuses many sins in others. (Witham)
Charity covereth a multitude of sins. It is a great means to atone for them; or it may signify, that a charitable mind excuses many sins in others. (Witham)
Verse 8. _HAVE FERVENT CHARITY_] αγαπηνεκτενη. _Intense love;_ _for love shall cover a multitude of sins_. A loving disposition leads us to pass by the faults of others, to forgive offences against o...
AND ABOVE ALL THINGS - More than all things else. HAVE FERVENT CHARITY AMONG YOURSELVES - Warm, ardent love toward each other. On the nature of charity, see the notes at 1 Corinthians 13:1. The word...
IV. THE COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS AND SUFFERING CHAPTER 3:10-4:19 _ 1. The comfort in suffering (1 Peter 3:10)_ 2. Few saved as illustrated by Noah's preaching (1 Peter 3:18) 3. The new life i...
The conception that the _consummation of_ all things is at hand fills the thought of the section with urgency. All work is to be done in that spirit of earnest, prayerful readiness that all life may p...
THE OBLIGATION OF THE CHRISTIAN (1 Peter 4:1-5)...
ABOVE. before. App-104. HAVE, &C. = having your love toward (Greek. _eis)_ one another intense. FERVENT. Greek. _ektenes._ Only here and Acts 12:5. Compare 1 Peter 1:22. CHARITY. App-135. AMONG. A...
_And above all things have fervent charity_ It is to be regretted that the unintelligent desire for variation which the translators of 1611 took almost as their guiding principle, and in this instance...
Having urged the necessity of terminating the regime of sin, St Peter next gives a summary of what life according to God in the Spirit should be. It is a life of sober-mindedness, of watchful prayer,...
ΤῊΝ … ἈΓΆΠΗΝ ἘΚΤΕΝΗ͂ ἜΧΟΝΤΕΣ. ἐκτενῆ is the predicate. It is assumed that they have love towards one another, but they are bidden to maintain it in a fervent, strenuous condition, cf. 1 Peter 1:22. Ἑ...
ΠΡΟ ΠΆΝΤΩΝ (G4253; G3956) перед всем, превыше всего, ΈΚΤΕΝΉΣ (G1618) усердный, интенсивный (_см._ 1 Peter 1:22). ΈΧΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΧΩ (G2192) находить, ΚΑΛΎΠΤΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_...
DISCOURSE: 2407 THE DUTY AND OFFICE OF CHRISTIAN LOVE 1 Peter 4:8. _Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins_. THE divine authority of our...
AND ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE FERVENT CHARITY— See on James 5:12. Lest they should imagine that the _sobriety_ and _prayer_ recommended in the preceding verse were all that was required of them, St. Peter...
1 PETER 4:8-9 ABOVE ALL THINGS BEING FERVENT IN YOUR LOVE AMONG YOURSELVES; FOR LOVE COVERETH A MULTITUDE OF SINS: USING HOSPITALITY ONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT MURMURING: _Expanded Translation_ in prefe...
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ABOVE ALL THINGS - not that "charity" is above "prayer," but love is the animating spirit,...
VERSE 8. ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE FERVENT CHARITY. Have above all things, as the most important of all, burning, continual love for the brethren. This makes you better and stronger. You will then see no...
19 Who are these imprisoned spirits ? Are they not the same that Peter mentions in his second epistle (1Pe_2:4) who were thrust down to the gloomy caverns of Tartarus, and the messengers of Jude's epi...
HAVE FERVENT CHARITY] RV 'being fervent in your love,' lit. 'intense'; perseverance and vigour, not excitement, is implied. SHALL COVER THE MULTITUDE OF SINS] 'covereth a multitude of sins,' from Prov...
THE SECURITY OF THE FAITHFUL IN THE APPROACHING JUDGMENT _C_ (ii). 1 Peter 4:1. 'This is your faith: live then in accordance with it. Arm yourselves against your troubles by resolving to be like Chris...
This kind of deep love is God’s kind of love (see chapter 1 Peter 1:22). It is more than just good feelings that last only for a time. Christians should continue to love one another deeply, even when...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 LIVING FOR GOD v1 Christ suffered while he was in his human body. Each one of you Christians must be ready to suffer as he did. If you suf...
(7-11) DUTY OF BENEVOLENCE WITHIN THE CHURCH IN VIEW OF THE ADVENT. — The end of the world is not far off; let it find you not only sober, but (above all else) exerting an intense charity within the C...
AND ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE FERVENT CHARITY AMONG YOURSELVES. — The original is far more vigorous: _But before all things keeping intense your charity towards yourselves._ St. Peter assumes that the cha...
CHAPTER 13 CHRISTIAN SERVICE FOR GOD'S GLORY 1 Peter 4:7 "BUT the end of all things is at hand." Well-nigh two thousand years have passed away since the Apostle wrote these words. What are we to thi...
πρὸπάντων, St. Peter emphasises the pre-eminent importance of love of man as much as St. cf. John 1:22. ἑαυτούς put for ἀλλήλους in accordance with the saying _thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself...
THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST 1 Peter 4:1 The Apostle urges the disciples to make a clean break with sin. As our Lord's grave lay between Him and His earlier life, so there should be a clean break between o...
The whole force of the argument which the apostle has used in speaking thus of the Christ was to show these saints how through suffering Christ reached a triumph, and to call them to arm themselves wi...
SERVING TO GLORIFY GOD From considering some who had heard the gospel and already died, Peter went immediately into the nearness of the end of all things. Peter may well have been specifically thinkin...
(6) And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. (6) He commends charity towards one another, because it buries a multitude of sins, and...
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; (2) That he no longer should live t...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_CHRISTIAN EXPECTATION*_ ‘Watch unto prayer.’ 1 Peter 4:7 Of old, certain Sundays in the Church’s year were known by particular names or titles, and in some measure this practice is still kept up....
_THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM_ ‘The end of all things is at hand … watch unto prayer.… Have fervent charity.… Use hospitality.… Speak as the oracles of God … that God in all things may be glorified.’ 1...
_INTENSE CHARITY_ ‘Above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.’ 1 Peter 4:8 The charity about which St. Peter and St. Paul wrote is love;...
8_And above all things _He commends charity or love as the first thing, for it is the bond of perfection. And he bids it to be _fervent, _or intense, or vehement, which is the same thing; for whosoeve...
From the beginning of this Chapter to the end of Verse, the apostle continues to speak of the general principles of God's government, exhorting, the Christian to act on the principles of Christ Him el...
AND ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE FERVENT CHARITY AMONG YOURSELVES,.... Not but that charity, or love, is to be exercised towards all men, even towards enemies, but more especially towards the saints, and tha...
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Ver. 8. _Charity shall cover_] This is meant of mutual love, whereby we forgive offences one...
_Above all things_ See that you remember the distinguishing badge of your religion and _have_, maintain, _fervent charity_, love, _among yourselves_ One toward another: _for love shall cover a multitu...
FERVENT CHARITY; ardent love to one another. SHALL COVER THE MULTITUDE OF SINS; by leading him who exercises it to overlook and forgive the sins of his brethren. The words are quoted from Proverbs 10...
Christian virtues and works:...
AND ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE FERVENT CHARITY AMONG YOURSELVES; FOR CHARITY SHALL COVER THE MULTITUDE OF SINS....
Christ's suffering in the flesh is set before us then as an example; not His sufferings for us in atonement, which were His alone, but His sufferings in a contrary world, in precious, lowly grace. We...
SHALL: Or, will...
_1 Peter 4:8 ‘Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers. multitude of sins'._ ‘ABOVE ALL' -‘before all things' (P.P. Comm. p. 172). ‘The phrase does not intend to put l...
7-11 The destruction of the Jewish church and nation, foretold by our Saviour, was very near. And the speedy approach of death and judgment concerns all, to which these words naturally lead our minds...
AND ABOVE ALL THINGS: see the like expression, JAMES 5:12, and on the same occasion, COLOSSIANS 3:14. HAVE FERVENT CHARITY; not only labour after charity diligently and carefully, but let it be ferven...
1 Clement Who can describe the [blessed] bond of the love of God? What man is able to tell the excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be told? The height to which love exalts is unspeakable. Love u...
1 Peter 4:8 And G1161 above G4253 things G3956 have G2192 (G5723) fervent G1618 love G26 another G1519...
‘Above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins, using hospitality one to another without murmuring,' Instead of indulging in ‘lasciviousness' (‘lust...
IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMING JUDGMENT AND RESURRECTION THEY ARE TO LIVE WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY (1 PETER 4:7). In view of the urgency of the times therefore they are to live out their Christian lives ac...
APPLICATION OF THE PREVIOUS THEME, AND REMINDER OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (1 PETER 4:1). Having portrayed the great and all encompassing victory of Jesus Christ through suffering, Peter now applies the i...
1 Peter 4:8. BEFORE ALL THINGS HAVING YOUR LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER INTENSE. The ‘and' of the A. V. is cancelled by the R. V. and the best authorities. This exhortation and the following are put in the par...
The thought of Christ's readiness to judge both quick and dead leads naturally to that of the close of the world. Peter passes thus to a new series of counsels bearing on what befits men who see the J...
ABOVE ALL THINGS (προ παντων). See this phrase in James 5:12.BEING FERVENT (εκτενη εχοντες). Present active participle of εχοντες and predicate accusative of adjective εκτενης (from εκτεινω, to s...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
1 Peter 4:8 It is quite evident that the sins spoken of here are not our own sins, but the sins of other persons, and that the intention is to say that as hatred brings causes of quarrel to the surfa...
1 Peter 4:1. _Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind:_ Accepting this great truth, that it is well that the flesh should die that the s...
1 Peter 4:1. _Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin:_ Brethren, we have a...
CONTENTS: Exhortations to mortification of sin and living unto God. Suffering with Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Christ having suffered so much for us, should cause us to fortify ourse...
1 Peter 4:3. _The will of the gentiles._ Augustine in his city of God, should be read to see the excess and abominable idolatries of the gentiles. See the notes on Ephesians 5:12; Romans 1....
LOVE ONE ANOTHER EARNESTLY. "Love is the mortar which builds living stones into the house where God lives through his Spirit (Ephesians 2:20-22). Without this _love_ to hold you together, you will be...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 4:8 LOVE COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS (Proverbs 10:12). Where love is present, offenses are forgiven....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 4:7. END OF ALL THINGS.—Jews naturally thought of the end of organised Judaism as the “end of all things,” The end of one great _æon_, or dispensation was nigh...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 4:1 FORASMUCH THEN AS CHRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH. St. Peter returns, after the digression of 1 Peter 3:19, to the great subject of Christ's example. The words "for...
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us (1 Peter 4:1) That is, has gone to the cross. in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered (1 Peter 4:1) Or come...
1 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Corinthians 13:7; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Peter 1:22;...
Fervent [ε κ τ ε ν η]. See, on the kindred adverb fervently, notes on ch. 1 22. Love covereth, etc. Compare James 5:20; Proverbs 10:12....
Love covereth a multitude of sins — Yea, "love covereth all things." He that loves another, covers his faults, how many soever they be. He turns away his own eyes from them; and, as far as is possible...
The next grace and virtue exhorted to, is that of charity, or mutual love amongst themselves: and observe with what special care and particular regard it is recommended to us, ABOVE ALL THINGS; and no...