1 Corinthians 13:7

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 13:7

Love covers unworthy things rather than bringing them to the light and magnifying them (cf. 1 Peter 4:8). It puts up with everything. It is always eager to believe the best and to "put the most favorable construction on ambiguous actions." [Note: Bruce, 1 and 2 Corinthians, p. 127.] "This does not mean . . . that a Christian is to allow himself to be fooled by every rogue, or to pretend that he believes that white is black. But in doubtful cases he will prefer being too generous in his... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 1 Corinthians 13:7

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

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

(e) Spiritual Gifts(ii) The most excellent Gift of CharityIn this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe the most fragrant odours. Passing from the previous chapters with their tale of faction and scandal and shame to this passage with its description of Christian love is like passing from the enchanted ground of the ’Pilgrim’s Progress’ to the land of Beulah within sight of the Celestial Gate.The Revised Version reads ’love’ for charity throughout the chapter The Gk. word is... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Corinthians 13:7

(7) Beareth all things.—The full thought of the original here is that love silently endures whatever it has to suffer. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

1 Corinthians 13:0 The paean of love chanted at Ephesus under Nero for the poor saints of Corinth, has not perished with Corinth. Annihilated for ever, the magnificence of Nero's Corinth lies buried today beneath silent rubbish-mounds and green vineyards on the terraces between the mass of the Acrocorinthus and the shore of the gulf; nothing but ruins, ghastly remnants, destruction. The words of the paean, however, have outlasted the marble and the bronzes of the Empire, because they had an... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-13

Chapter 19NO GIFT LIKE LOVETHIS 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 which is meant to exhibit its fineness of texture. But although this eulogium of love is its own best interpreter, there are points in it which require both explanation and enforcement.In the preceding chapter (12) Paul has striven to suppress the envy, vanity, and discord which had resulted from the abuse... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

3. The Need and Superiority of Love. CHAPTER 13 1. The Preeminence of Love. (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 .) 2. Love described in its characteristics. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 .) 3. Love never faileth; its Permanence. (1 Corinthians 13:8-13 .) This chapter is a most blessed exaltation of love. The word “charity” is an unfortunate mistranslation. The Greek word for love used in the New Testament was never used by the Greek heathen classical writers. In its meaning it was unknown among the Gentiles.... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Verses 1 Timothy 3:0 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; verse 2 with what I have; and verse 3 with what I do. Though spoken in most sublime language, "tongues of men or of angels," my words are merely as a brass sounding instrument or a clanging cymbal, if love is not present. The warmth and reality of a proper personal element is lacking: this... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

SPIRITUAL GIFTS The theme of this lesson is closely related to the preceding, for the church disorders included not only unbecoming conduct of the women in the public assembly, and an unworthy observance of the Lord’s supper, but an unholy emulation in the matter of spiritual gifts. After a brief introduction (1 Corinthians 12:1-3 ), the apostle discusses the origin of these gifts as not natural to the believer, but the special bestowment of God. God the Father is the worker of them, God the... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - 1 Corinthians 13:7-13

1Co 13:7-13 7. Charity heareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a... read more

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