Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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Gill's Exposition
Charity suffereth long,.... The apostle, in this and some following verses, enumerates the several properties and characters of the grace of love; and all along represents it as if it was a person,…
Barnes' Notes
Charity suffereth long - Paul now proceeds to illustrate the “nature” of love, or to show how it is exemplified. His illustrations are all drawn from its effect in regulating our conduct toward…
Adam Clarke
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Charity suffereth long - Μακροθυμει, Has a long mind; to the end of which neither trials, adversities, persecutions, nor provocations, can reach. The love of God, and of our neighbor for God's…
The apostle gives us in these verses some of the properties and effects of charity, both to describe and commend it, that we may know whether we have this grace and that if we have not we may fall in…
Cambridge Bible
Charity suffereth long, and is kind The first the passive, the second the active, exercise of love; the one endurance, the other beneficence.
vaunteth not itself The word here used is derived from the…
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