1 CORINTHIANS 13:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs — love does not aschēmoneō (behave shamefully toward others), is not idios zeteo (self-interested), is not paroxynō (quickly irritated, thin-skinned), and does not logizomai (calculate, keep accounts of) the kakos (evil, wrongs); this describes a love undefensive, not calculating, eager to forgive, refusing the ledger of grievance.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 13:5
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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