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1 Corinthians 13:7

Beareth all things

(παντα στεγε). Στεγω is old verb from στεγη, roof, already in 1 Corinthians 9:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:5 which see. Love covers, protects, forbears (suffert, Vulgate). See 1 Peter 4:8 "because love covers a multitude of sins" (οτ αγαπη καλυπτε φηθος αμαρτιων), throws a veil over.Believeth all things

(παντα πιστευε). Not gullible, but has faith in men.Hopeth all things

(παντα ελπιζε). Sees the bright side of things. Does not despair. Ενδυρεθ αλλ θινγς (παντα υπομενε). Perseveres. Carries on like a stout-hearted soldier. If one knows Sir Joshua Reynolds's beautiful painting of the Seven Virtues (the four cardinal virtues of the Stoics--temperance, prudence, fortitude, justice--and the three Christian graces--faith, hope, love), he will find them all exemplified here as marks of love (the queen of them all).

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See also 1 Corinthians 13:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Corinthians 13:7. (12.) _BEARETH ALL THINGS_] παντα στεγει, This word is also variously interpreted: to _endure, bear, sustain, cover,_ _conceal, contain_. Bishop Pearce contends that it shou...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEARETH ALL THINGS - Compare the note at 1 Corinthians 9:12. Doddridge renders this, “covers all things.” The word used here (στέγει stegei) properly means to “cover” (from στέγη stegē, a covering,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE NEED AND SUPERIORITY OF LOVE. CHAPTER 13 __ 1. The Preeminence of Love. (1 Corinthians 13:1 .) 2. Love described in its characteristics. (1 Corinthians 13:4 .) 3. Love never faileth; its Pe...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 CORINTHIANS 13. ALL GIFTS AND SACRIFICES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT LOVE, WHICH IS SUPREME AND INCOMPARABLE. The chapter falls into three divisions: (_a)_ superlative gifts and costliest surrenders are v...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE HYMN OF LOVE (1 Corinthians 13:1-13) 13 I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have not love, I am become no better than echoing brass or a clanging cymbal. I may have the gi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEARETH. Greek. _stego._ See 1 Corinthians 9:12. Here it means "is forbearing in all provocations". BELIEVETH. App-150....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    1 Corinthians 12:31 Ch. 1 Corinthians 13:13. The Excellencies of Love _and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way_ Literally, AND FURTHERMORE I SHEW YOU AN EMINENTLY EXCELLENT WAY, i.e. the way of l...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _beareth all things Suffers_, Vulgate, and so Wiclif and Tyndale. See note on ch. 1 Corinthians 9:12, where the same word is used. Here it means to endure patiently indignities and affronts, save of c...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    1 Corinthians 12:31 to 1 Corinthians 13:13. THE EXCELLENCIES OF LOVE ΚΑῚ ἜΤΙ ΚΑΘ' ὙΠΕΡΒΟΛῊΝ ὉΔῸΝ ὙΜΙ͂Ν ΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ. AND MOREOVER I SHEW YOU A WAY OF SUPERLATIVE EXCELLENCE. This, St Paul would have us un...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE DESCRIPTION OF LOVE 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-8:_ These verses provide a brief description of love in action. God approaches love from both a negative and a positive point of view. "Love is kind and pat...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1986 A DESCRIPTION OF CHARITY 1 Corinthians 13:4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEARETH ALL THINGS, &C.— The twelfth character of love is, that παντα στεγει, it _coveteth all things,_ as the word should undoubtedly be translated; for otherwise this character would be the very sam...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    13 The body of Jesus, or of the Lord, denotes His physical frame. The body of Christ, however, is quite a distinct thought. Christ, or the Anointed, is a title rather than a name. It suggests official...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    13:7 bears (d-1) Or 'covers.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _(e) Spiritual Gifts (ii) The most excellent Gift of Charity_ In this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe the most fragrant odours. Passing from the previous Chapter s with their t...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The character and actions of Love. 4. Vaunteth not itself] does not make a display. PUFFED UP] i.e. conceited....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BEARETH] without breaking down. BELIEVETH ALL THINGS] is not suspicious; puts the best construction on things. ENDURETH] without giving up....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BEARETH ALL THINGS. — The full thought of the original here is that love silently endures whatever it has to suffer....

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 19 NO GIFT LIKE LOVE THIS is one of the passages of Scripture which an expositor scruples to touch. Some of the bloom and delicacy of surface passes from the flower in the very handling whic...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    In 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 Paul's utterance began to rise with the elevation of his theme into the Hebraic rhythm (observe the recurrent ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, and the repeated οὐδέν) which marks his more imp...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 43. THE QUALITIES OF CHRISTIAN LOVE. The previous vv. have justified the καθʼ ὑπερβολὴν of 1 Corinthians 12:31. The loftiest human faculties of man are seen to be frustrate without love; by its aid...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE ONE ESSENTIAL FOR ALL 1 Corinthians 13:1 With what wonder his amanuensis must have looked up, as the Apostle broke into this exquisite sonnet on love! His radiant spirit had caught a glimpse of t...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The apostle dealt with love, its values (verses 1Co 13:1-3), its virtues (verses 1Co 13:4-7), and its victory (verses 1Co 13:8-13). The values of love are discovered in the fact that, apart from it, a...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The Nature of Love Love will cause one to endure wrong for a long time as Christ did (1 Peter 2:23). Love is good to all. Love is not jealous over another's good fortune, nor does it seek to impress o...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    II. THE WAY PAR EXCELLENCE. CHAP. 13. This chapter has been called a hymn. In tone indeed it is truly lyrical, especially in the first verses. Charity is poetically personified. In this respect the pa...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    The following picture is not drawn at random, and, so to speak, at the good pleasure of the author. It is as closely connected with the state of his readers as the foregoing passage. It is a mirror in...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (4) Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, (5) Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _CHRISTIAN LOVE_ ‘Charity suffereth long … endureth all things.’ 1 Corinthians 13:4 It is indeed the occasion of astonishment that in the face of this chapter theology should ever have imagined tha...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Nevertheless there was something more excellent than all gifts. They were the manifestations of the power of God and of the mysteries of His wisdom; love, that of His nature itself. They might speak w...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Ver. 7. _Beareth all things_] στεγει, _tegit._ Covereth faults with her large mantle, dissembleth injuries, swallowet...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Love _rejoiceth not in iniquity_ Takes no pleasure to see an adversary fall into an error or sin, by which his reputation should be blasted, and his interest ruined. On the contrary, the man influence...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A description of true love:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Verses 1 Timothy 3 of this chapter show the necessity of love; verses 4 to 7 the characteristics of love; and verses 8 to 13 its permanence. And in the first section, verse I deals with what I speak;...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    BEARETH ALL THINGS, BELIEVETH ALL THINGS, HOPETH ALL THINGS, ENDURETH ALL THINGS. 'beareth all things' -'the verb (bear)..originally meant "to cover, to conceal"' (Willis p. 458) Comments: 1. 'Ther...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The charitable man BEARETH ALL injuries with patience; he BELIEVETH ALL THINGS that are good of his brother, so far is he from being credulous to his prejudice; ENDURETH ALL THINGS that a good man oug...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    beareth all things [it endures wrongs without complaint, and bears the adversities, troubles and vexations of life without murmuring (Matthew 17:24-27), and often without divulging its needy condition...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 13:7 bears G4722 (G5719) things G3956 believes G4100 (G5719) things G3956 hopes G1679 (G5719

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Corinthians 13:7. BEARETH ALL THINGS from the wronging party. BELIEVETH ALL THINGS about him that are at all believable; such as that he has been misled, that he is prejudiced, that he is better th...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 13:4 "Love Suffereth Long, and is Kind.". I. We have here brought before us the two sides, the passive and the active sides, of a loving disposition. "Love suffereth long." It is perhap...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 13:1. _Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal._ If there be no love to God, and no love to man,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Love, the supreme gift of the Spirit, and its governing power over other gifts. CHARACTERS: Paul. CONCLUSION: Love alone can give value to any service rendered in Christ's name, and it is...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The apostle having spoken of the adornings of the church, which is the body of Christ, proceeds now to treat of her internal glory; and that glory is charity, for without this, all other endowments ar...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    LOVE NEVER GIVES UP. Even though others fail, or are weak, love does not give up, and also works to help the others. The symbolism in this verse is a _stout-hearted soldier_ who helps his buddies towa...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    BEARETH … BELIEVETH … HOPETH … ENDURETH ALL THINGS. LOVE’S LABOURS Notice-- I. The multitude of love’s difficulties. 1. The difficulties of love are many, for the apostle sets forth the opposing a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Charity suffereth long, and is kind._ CHRISTIAN LOVE I. Suffers long. The Greek denotes having the power “to hold the mind long,” _i.e.,_ it is the opposite to rash anger. There are persons who, whe...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal._ CHARITY Each of the apostles had a predominant feature of character....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 13:7 The terms BELIEVES and HOPES are sandwiched between BEARS and ENDURES and, like them, probably refer

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 13 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He points out that of all gifts and graces, charity is the first, and that without charity no gift or virtue is of any use. II. He enumerates (ver. 4) the sixt...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _Beareth all things._ Like a beam which sustains an imposed weight, or rather, like a palm-tree, which does not yield under its own weight, but, like an arch, is the more strong. Rightly says Augustin...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ 1. THESE NEED BE VERY FEW; the language of the chapter is of the simplest, the thought inexhaustibly full. 2. Note, Paul, not John, writes this chapter on LOVE. 3. The “I” is not s...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1 _The supremely excellent way of Christian love. _This chapter has been in all ages the object of the special admiration of the Church. Would that it had received in all...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Corinthians 9:18; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 4:8;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Beareth [σ τ ε γ ε ι]. See on suffer, ch. 9 12. It keeps out resentment as the ship keeps out the water, or the roof the rain. Endureth [υ π ο μ ε ν ε ι]. An advance on beareth : patient acquiescence...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY 1 Corinthians 13:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The love of God. The great love of God verse is John 3:16. Another great love verse is Romans 5:8. The whole Bible is, however, one st...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Love covereth all things — Whatever evil the lover of mankind sees, hears, or knows of any one, he mentions it to none; it never goes out of his lips, unless where absolute duty constrains to speak. B...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Charity or love has strong shoulders to bear wrongs and injuries with patience, though very hard and grievous to be borne, without returning evil for evil: it will enable us to forbear one another in...

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