1 CORINTHIANS 13:4 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud — Paul defines love through a series of stative verbs and negations: makrothymia (patience, long-suffering), chrēstotēs (kindness, usefulness), non-zēlos (non-envious), non-perpereuomai (non-boastful), non-physioō (not puffed up with arrogance); these are the antidotes to the Corinthian vices of impatience, harshness, jealousy, and pride.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 13:4
Thus, whereas he had showed, that both faith and knowledge and prophecy and tongues and gifts and healing and a perfect life and martyrdom, if love be absent, are no great advantage; of necessity he next makes an outline of its matchless beauty, adorning its image with the parts of virtue as with a sort of colors, and putting together all its members with exactness. But do not thou hastily pass by, beloved, the things spoken, but examine each one of them with much care, that…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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