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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;{HR}But love covereth all transgressions. (Prov. 10:12)

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James 3:16• ¹⁶For where envying and faction [are], there disorder [is] and every bad deed. (James 3:16)

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or, is not rash.

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Col. 2:18• ¹⁸Let no one defraud you of your prize, doing his will in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he hath 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;{HR}But love covereth all transgressions. (Prov. 10:12)

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2 Cor. 6:6• ⁶in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, 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, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control: (Gal. 5:22)

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

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Col. 1:11• ¹¹in all power empowered according to the might of his glory, unto all endurance and long-suffering with joy; (Col. 1:11)

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Col. 3:12• ¹²Put on therefore, as elect of God, holy [and] beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, long-suffering; (Col. 3:12)

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2 Tim. 2:25• ²⁵in meekness instructing those that oppose, if haply God may give them repentance unto acknowledgment of truth, (2 Tim. 2:25)

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2 Tim. 3:10• ¹⁰But thou hast followed closely my teaching, course, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience, (2 Tim. 3:10)

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2 Tim. 4:2• ²preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; convict, rebuke, encourage with all long-suffering and doctrine. (2 Tim. 4:2)

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James 3:17• ¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, uncontentious, impartial. (James 3:17)

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1 Peter 4:8• ⁸and before all things having your love toward each other fervent, for love covereth a multitude of sins; (1 Peter 4:8)

is kind.

Neh. 9:17• ¹⁷{i}and 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.{/i} (Neh. 9:17)

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Prov. 19:22• ²²The charm of a man [is] his kindness,{HR}And a poor man [is] better than a liar. (Prov. 19:22)

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Prov. 31:20,26• ²⁰{i}She stretcheth out her hand to the afflicted,{HR}And she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.{/i}
²⁶{i}She openeth her mouth with wisdom;{HR}And upon her tongue is the law of kindness.{/i} (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 each other, even as God also in Christ hath forgiven you. (Eph. 4:32)

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Col. 3:12• ¹²Put on therefore, as elect of God, holy [and] beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, long-suffering; (Col. 3:12)

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1 Peter 3:8• ⁸Finally [be] all likeminded, sympathetic, brother-loving, tender-hearted, humble-minded; (1 Peter 3:8)

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

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1 John 3:16‑18• ¹⁶Herein we know love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.
¹⁷But whoso may have the world's means of living, and behold his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abideth the love of God in him?
¹⁸Dear children, let us not love with word nor with the tongue, but in deed and truth. (1 John 3:16‑18)

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1 John 4:11• ¹¹Beloved, if God 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 emulation and strife [are] among you, 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 she 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• ¹⁸{i}For he knew that they had delivered him up through envy.{/i} (Matt. 27:18)

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

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Rom. 13:13• ¹³As in daylight, let us walk becomingly, not in revels and drunkenness, not in chambering and indecency, not in strife and envy; (Rom. 13:13)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear lest by any means on coming I find you not such as I wish, and I be found by you such as ye wish not; lest by any means [there be] strife, jealousy, wraths, feuds, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, confusions; (2 Cor. 12:20)

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Gal. 5:21,26• ²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
²⁶Let us not become vainglorious, 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 goodwill, preach the Christ: (Phil. 1:15)

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1 Tim. 6:4• ⁴he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questionings and word-disputes, out of which cometh envy, strife, revilings, evil suspicions, (1 Tim. 6:4)

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Titus 3:3• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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James 3:14‑16• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter emulation and faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, natural, demoniacal.
¹⁶For where envying and faction [are], there disorder [is] and every bad deed. (James 3:14‑16)

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James 4:5• ⁵Or think ye that the scripture saith in vain? Doth the Spirit that took his dwelling in us long unto envy? (James 4:5)

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1 Peter 2:1• ¹Putting away 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 fellow hath in the wilderness, {i}so that nothing was missed of all that was his; and he has requited me evil for good{/i}.
²²So, and more also do God unto the enemies of David, {i}if I leave of all that is his by the morning light any male{/i}.
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 Jehovah 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 a single soul. (1 Sam. 25:21‑22,33‑34)

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1 Kings 20:10‑11• ¹⁰{i}And 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!{/i}
¹¹{i}And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on boast himself as he that putteth off!{/i} (1 Kings 20:10‑11)

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Psa. 10:5• ⁵His ways are firm at every time;{HR}Thy judgments [are] a height away from him;{HR}All his adversaries—he puffeth at them. (Psa. 10:5)

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Prov. 13:10• ¹⁰By pride cometh only contention;{HR}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;{HR}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,{HR}Lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof,{HR}When thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
⁹Debate thy cause with thy neighbour,{HR}But reveal not the secret of another;
¹⁰Lest he that heareth disgrace thee,{HR}And thine ill-report 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:{HR}And the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.
⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry:{HR}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,{HR}Leave not thy place;{HR}For yieldingness pacifieth great offenses. (Eccl. 10:4)

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Dan. 3:19‑22• ¹⁹{i}Then 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.{/i}
²⁰{i}And 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.{/i}
²¹{i}Then 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.{/i}
²²{i}Forasmuch 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.{/i} (Dan. 3:19‑22)

is not.

1 Cor. 4:6,18• ⁶And these things, brethren, I transferred to myself and Apollos on your account, that ye may in our case learn, Nothing above what is written, in order that ye be not puffed up one for one against another.
¹⁸Now some were puffed up as though I were not coming unto 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 did 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 the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge; knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. (1 Cor. 8:1)

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

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Phil. 2:1‑5• ¹If therefore [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 mind the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, minding the one thing:
³nothing in strifefulness, or vainglory, but in lowly-mindedness esteeming one another more excellent than themselves:
⁴regarding each not his own things, but each also those of others.
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,