1 Corinthians 13:7

Charity never faileth,.... It may fail as to the exercise of it, as other graces do; it may be left, but not lost; the fervour of it may be remitted and abated; it may wax cold through the prevalence…

Beareth all things - Compare the note at 1Co 9:12. Doddridge renders this, “covers all things.” The word used here (στέγει stegei) properly means to “cover” (from στέγη stegē, a covering, roof; Mat…

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Beareth all things - Παντα στεγει. This word is also variously interpreted: to endure, bear, sustain, cover, conceal, contain. Bishop Pearce contends that it should be translated covereth all…

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…

beareth all things Suffers, Vulgate, and so Wiclif and Tyndale. See note on ch. 1Co 9:12, where the same word is used. Here it means to endure patiently indignities and affronts, save of course where…