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1 Cor. 13:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Charity sufferethd long, and is kind; charity enviethf not; charity ηvaunteth not itself, is not puffedg up,

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Prov. 10:12• ¹²Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. (Prov. 10:12)

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James 3:16• ¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (James 3:16)

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or, is not rash.

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Col. 2:18• ¹⁸Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, (Col. 2:18)

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suffereth.

Prov. 10:12• ¹²Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. (Prov. 10:12)

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2 Cor. 6:6• ⁶By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, (2 Cor. 6:6)

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Gal. 5:22• ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, (Gal. 5:22)

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Eph. 4:2• ²With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; (Eph. 4:2)

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Col. 1:11• ¹¹Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; (Col. 1:11)

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Col. 3:12• ¹²Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; (Col. 3:12)

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2 Tim. 2:25• ²⁵In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; (2 Tim. 2:25)

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2 Tim. 3:10• ¹⁰But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, (2 Tim. 3:10)

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2 Tim. 4:2• ²Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. (2 Tim. 4:2)

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James 3:17• ¹⁷But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. (James 3:17)

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1 Peter 4:8• ⁸And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8)

is kind.

Neh. 9:17• ¹⁷And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. (Neh. 9:17)

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Prov. 19:22• ²²The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. (Prov. 19:22)

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Prov. 31:20,26• ²⁰She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
²⁶She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. (Prov. 31:20,26)

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Luke 6:35‑36• ³⁵But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
³⁶Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. (Luke 6:35‑36)

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Eph. 4:32• ³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. (Eph. 4:32)

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Col. 3:12• ¹²Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; (Col. 3:12)

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1 Peter 3:8• ⁸Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: (1 Peter 3:8)

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2 Peter 1:7• ⁷And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. (2 Peter 1:7)

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1 John 3:16‑18• ¹⁶Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
¹⁷But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
¹⁸My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. (1 John 3:16‑18)

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1 John 4:11• ¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (1 John 4:11)

envieth.

1 Cor. 3:3• ³For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? (1 Cor. 3:3)

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Gen. 30:1• ¹And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. (Gen. 30:1)

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Gen. 37:11• ¹¹And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. (Gen. 37:11)

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Matt. 27:18• ¹⁸For he knew that for envy they had delivered him. (Matt. 27:18)

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Rom. 1:29• ²⁹Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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Rom. 13:13• ¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. (Rom. 13:13)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: (2 Cor. 12:20)

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Gal. 5:21,26• ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
²⁶Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal. 5:21,26)

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Phil. 1:15• ¹⁵Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: (Phil. 1:15)

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1 Tim. 6:4• ⁴He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, (1 Tim. 6:4)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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James 3:14‑16• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (James 3:14‑16)

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James 4:5• ⁵Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? (James 4:5)

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1 Peter 2:1• ¹Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, (1 Peter 2:1)

vaunteth not itself.

or, is not rash.

1 Sam. 25:21‑22,33‑34• ²¹Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
²²So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
³³And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
³⁴For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. (1 Sam. 25:21‑22,33‑34)

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1 Kings 20:10‑11• ¹⁰And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
¹¹And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. (1 Kings 20:10‑11)

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Psa. 10:5• ⁵His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. (Psa. 10:5)

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Prov. 13:10• ¹⁰Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. (Prov. 13:10)

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Prov. 17:14• ¹⁴The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. (Prov. 17:14)

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Prov. 25:8‑10• ⁸Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.
⁹Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself; and discover not a secret to another:
¹⁰Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away. (Prov. 25:8‑10)

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Eccl. 7:8‑9• ⁸Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. (Eccl. 7:8‑9)

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Eccl. 10:4• ⁴If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences. (Eccl. 10:4)

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Dan. 3:19‑22• ¹⁹Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
²⁰And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
²¹Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
²²Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. (Dan. 3:19‑22)

is not.

1 Cor. 4:6,18• ⁶And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
¹⁸Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. (1 Cor. 4:6,18)

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1 Cor. 5:2• ²And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. (1 Cor. 5:2)

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1 Cor. 8:1• ¹Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. (1 Cor. 8:1)

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Col. 2:18• ¹⁸Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, (Col. 2:18)

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Phil. 2:1‑5• ¹If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
²Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
³Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
⁴Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
⁵Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (Phil. 2:1‑5)

• It is worthy of note that the qualities of divine love are almost entirely of a passive character. The first eight qualities pointed out by the Spirit are the expression of this renunciation of self. (“1 Corinthians 13” by J.N. Darby)

• (1) "Love has long patience." The flesh is ever impatient, but love can suffer long and wait God's time. Fleshly endurance is soon exhausted; love does not wear out. (2) Love "is kind." The flesh even if it waits, will often do so in a fretful and resentful spirit; but love, while waiting can retain a kindly spirit of consideration for others. (3) "Love is not emulous of others." The flesh ever seeks a place above others, and is jealous of favor or position bestowed on others rather than self. Love can delight in honors bestowed upon another without a thought of envy. (4) "Love is not insolent and rash." The flesh is aggressive, rashly pushing itself into prominence. Love is not self-assertive, but rather retiring and reticent. (5) Love "is not puffed up." The flesh is often vain and filled with its self-importance. Love takes the lowly place in service to others. (“1 Corinthians 13” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rashc, is not puffed up,

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Or "vain-glorious."

W. Kelly Translation

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Love is long-suffering, is kind; love is not emulous, is not vain-glorious, is not puffed up,