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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 transgressions. (Prov. 10:12)

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James 3:16• ¹⁶For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing. (James 3:16)

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or, is not rash.

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Col. 2:18• ¹⁸Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, (Col. 2:18)

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suffereth.

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

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2 Cor. 6:6• ⁶in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, (2 Cor. 6:6)

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Gal. 5:22• ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, (Gal. 5:22)

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Eph. 4:2• ²with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love; (Eph. 4:2)

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Col. 1:11• ¹¹strengthened with all power according to the might of his glory unto all endurance and longsuffering with joy; (Col. 1:11)

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

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2 Tim. 2:25• ²⁵in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth, (2 Tim. 2:25)

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2 Tim. 3:10• ¹⁰But *thou* hast been thoroughly acquainted with my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, endurance, (2 Tim. 3:10)

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2 Tim. 4:2• ²proclaim the word; be urgent in season and out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine. (2 Tim. 4:2)

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James 3:17• ¹⁷But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned. (James 3:17)

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1 Peter 4:8• ⁸but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins; (1 Peter 4:8)

is kind.

Neh. 9:17• ¹⁷and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not. (Neh. 9:17)

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Prov. 19:22• ²²The charm 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 afflicted, and she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
²⁶She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and upon her tongue is the law of kindness. (Prov. 31:20,26)

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Luke 6:35‑36• ³⁵But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest; for *he* is good to the unthankful and wicked.
³⁶Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful. (Luke 6:35‑36)

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Eph. 4:32• ³²and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has 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 compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; (Col. 3:12)

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1 Peter 3:8• ⁸Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, full of brotherly love, tender hearted, humble minded; (1 Peter 3:8)

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2 Peter 1:7• ⁷in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love: (2 Peter 1:7)

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1 John 3:16‑18• ¹⁶Hereby we have known love, because *he* has laid down his life for us; and *we* ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.
¹⁷But whoso may have the world's substance, and see his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abides the love of God in him?
¹⁸Children, let us not love with word, nor with tongue, but in deed and in truth. (1 John 3:16‑18)

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

envieth.

1 Cor. 3:3• ³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? (1 Cor. 3:3)

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Gen. 30:1• ¹And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to 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 kept the saying. (Gen. 37:11)

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

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Rom. 1:29• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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Rom. 13:13• ¹³As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation. (Rom. 13:13)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances; (2 Cor. 12:20)

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Gal. 5:21,26• ²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
²⁶Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another. (Gal. 5:21,26)

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Phil. 1:15• ¹⁵Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ. (Phil. 1:15)

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1 Tim. 6:4• ⁴he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions, (1 Tim. 6:4)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various 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 emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
¹⁶For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing. (James 3:14‑16)

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James 4:5• ⁵Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously? (James 4:5)

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1 Peter 2:1• ¹Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings 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 man had in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that was his; and he has requited me evil for good.
²²So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that is his by the morning light any male.
³³And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
³⁴But indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, who has restrained me from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any male. (1 Sam. 25:21‑22,33‑34)

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1 Kings 20:10‑11• ¹⁰And Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, The gods do so to 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 boast himself as he that putteth off! (1 Kings 20:10‑11)

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

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Prov. 13:10• ¹⁰By pride there only cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom. (Prov. 13:10)

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Prov. 17:14• ¹⁴The beginning of contention is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement. (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 neighbour hath put thee to shame.
⁹Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;
¹⁰lest he that heareth it disgrace thee, and thine evil report turn not away. (Prov. 25:8‑10)

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Eccl. 7:8‑9• ⁸Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; better is a patient spirit than a proud spirit.
⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation 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 quietness 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. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace 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 cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
²¹Then these men were bound in their hosen, their tunics, and their cloaks, and their garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
²²Forasmuch as the king's commandment was rigorous, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that had taken up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. (Dan. 3:19‑22)

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1 Cor. 4:6,18• ⁶Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.
¹⁸But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you; (1 Cor. 4:6,18)

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1 Cor. 5:2• ²And *ye* are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you. (1 Cor. 5:2)

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1 Cor. 8:1• ¹But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. (1 Cor. 8:1)

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Col. 2:18• ¹⁸Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, (Col. 2:18)

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Phil. 2:1‑5• ¹If then there be any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and compassions,
²fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;
³let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;
⁴regarding not each his own qualities, but each those of others also.
⁵For let 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."

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