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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. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(C)

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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.

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

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