1 Corinthians 13:7 BSB

1 Corinthians 13:7

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

KJV

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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Commentary

5 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Letter 78, To Horontianus (397)

He that has this charity fears nothing, for charity casteth out fear; and fear being thus banished and thrown aside, charity beareth all things, endureth all things. He who by charity endures all things, cannot fear martyrdom; and so in another place he speaks as a conqueror at the end of his course, The world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Cyprian

Treatise IX. On the Advantage of Patience. (258)

Charity is the bond of brotherhood, the foundation of peace, the holdfast and security of unity, which is greater than both hope and faith, which excels both good works and martyrdoms, which will abide with us always, eternal with God in the kingdom of heaven. Take from it patience; and deprived of it, it does not endure. Take from it the substance of bearing and of enduring, and it continues with no roots nor strength. The apostle, finally, when he would speak of charity, joined to it endurance and patience.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Where it cannot even excuse, it hopes God will at length give repentance unto life. Meantime it endureth all things - Whatever the injustice, the malice, the cruelty of men can inflict. He can not only do, but likewise suffer, all things, through Christ who strengtheneth him.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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 8:8; Luk 7:6); and then to “hide,” “conceal,” not to make known. If this be the sense here, then it means that love is disposed to hide or conceal the faults and imperfections of others; not to promulgate or blazon them abroad, or to give any undue publicity to them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
πάντα	panta	All things	G3956 →
στέγει,	stegei	it bears,	G4722 →
πάντα	panta	all things	G3956 →
πιστεύει,	pisteuei	believes,	G4100 →
πάντα	panta	all things	G3956 →
ἐλπίζει,	elpizei	hopes,	G1679 →
πάντα	panta	all things	G3956 →
ὑπομένει.	hupomenei	endures.	G5278 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
leads to
- 1 Peter 4:8
  Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ephesians 4:32
  Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
- Galatians 5:21–22
  and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Through
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
leads to
- Proverbs 10:12
  Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 17:9
  Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Colossians 3:14
  And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
Through
1 Peter 2:24
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
leads to
- Isaiah 53:4–6
  Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
- Matthew 8:17
  This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took on our infirmities and carried our diseases.”