1 Corinthians 13:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vauntetha not itself, is not puffed up, ”

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 o...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(2) Charity (d) suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, (2) He describes the force and nature of charity, partly by a comparison of opposit...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 13. All Gifts and Sacrifices are Worthless without Love, which is Supreme and Incomparable. The chapter falls into three divisions: ( a) superlative gifts and costliest surrenders ar...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

is kind . Greek. chresteuomai. Only here. Compare App-184. Note the Figure of speech Asyndeton in these verses: 1 Corinthians 13:13 ; 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 . envieth . Greek. zeloo. See Ac...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. Love is patient. He now commends love from its effects or fruits, though at the same time these eulogiums are not intended merely for its commendation, but to make the Corinthians unde...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1986 A DESCRIPTION OF CHARITY 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 . Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself un...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, -1 Charity suffereth long - Μακροθυμει, Has a long mind; to the end of which neither trials...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Charity suffereth long— The Apostle here proceeds to give us sixteen characters of divine love; —upon which, if the compass of our work allowed, it would be well worth time to expatiate. 1st, Lov...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Suffereth long - under provocations of evil from others. The negative side of love....
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(e) Spiritual Gifts (ii) The most excellent Gift of Charity In this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe the most fragrant odours. Passing from the previous Chapter s with the...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Charity suffereth long. — Better, Love is long-suffering. Here follows a description of love. Descriptions of positive characteristics and negations of evil qualities are now employed by the Apos...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 19 NO GIFT LIKE LOVE THIS is one of the passages of Scripture which an expositor scruples to touch. Some of the bloom and delicacy of surface passes from the flower in the very handling w...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the One Essential for All 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 With what wonder his amanuensis must have looked up, as the Apostle broke into this exquisite sonnet on love! His radiant spirit had caught a gli...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The apostle dealt with love, its values (verses 1Co 13:1-3), its virtues (verses 1Co 13:4-7), and its victory (verses 1Co 13:8-13). The values of love are discovered in the fact that, apart from it,...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, (5) Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

CHRISTIAN LOVE ‘Charity suffereth long … endureth all things.’ 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 It is indeed the occasion of astonishment that in the face of this chapter theology should ever have imagi...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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,...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Ver. 4. And is kind ] χρηστευεται, or, is easy to be made use of, ready to any good offi...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Love suffereth long Here the apostle attributes to love the qualities and actions of a person, in order to render his account of that divine grace the more lively and affecting. The love of God, an...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Verses 1 Timothy 3 of this chapter show the necessity of love; verses 4 to 7 the characteristics of love; and verses 8 to 13 its permanence. And in the first section, verse I deals with what I spe...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Charity Described. A. D. 57. 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; c...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lest the Corinthians should say to the apostle: What is this love you discourse of? Or how shall we know if we have it? The apostle here gives thirteen notes of a charitable person. Charity sufferet...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Love Must Lie At The Root Of All We Do Especially Our Ministry To The Church (13:1-13). Paul now deals with what must lie behind the use of spiritual gifts, if they are to be truly spiritual. And...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES 1. These need be very few ; the language of the chapter is of the simplest, the thought inexhaustibly full. 2. Note, Paul, not John, writes this chapter on Love . 3. The “I” i...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Scofield Reference Notes

charity That is, love; and so in ( 1 Corinthians 13:2 ); ( 1 Corinthians 13:3 ); ( 1 Corinthians 13:4 ); ( 1 Corinthians 13:8 ); ( 1 Corinthians 13:13 ).
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 I. "Love envieth not." Envy is the shadow of jealousy, apes its form and mimics its movements, but is constructed out of more airy material and clothed in darker garb. The jea...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Corinthians 13:1 . Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. If there be no love to God, and no love to m...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The apostle having spoken of the adornings of the church, which is the body of Christ, proceeds now to treat of her internal glory; and that glory is charity, for without this, all other endowments a...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Charity Each of the apostles had a predominant feature of charac...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 13:1-46 The supremely excellent way of Christian love. This chapter has been in all ages the object of the special admiration of the Church. Would that it had rec...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envies not; charity vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 3:3 ; 1 Corinthians 4:18 ; 1 Corinthians 4:6 ; 1 Corinthians 5:2 ; 1 Corinthians 8:1 ; 1 John 3:16-18 ; 1 John 4:11 ; 1 Kings 20:10 ; 1 Kings 20:11 ; 1 Peter 2:1 ; 1 Peter 3:...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The More Excellent Way 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The love of God. The great love of God verse is John 3:16 . Another great love verse is Romans 5:8 . The whole Bible is, ho...
1 Corinthians 13:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The love of God, and of our neighbour for God's sake, is patient toward, all men. It, suffers all the weakness, ignorance, errors, and infirmities of the children of God; all the malice and wickedn...

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 13:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Scofield Reference Notes

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 13:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Corinthians 13:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Corinthians 13:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes