Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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1 Corinthians 13:5-9
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) (public domain).
Beareth all things--without speaking of what it has to bear. The same Greek verb as in Co1 9:12. It endures without divulging to the world personal distress. Literally said of holding fast like a watertight vessel; so the charitable man contains himself in silence from giving vent to what selfishness would prompt under personal hardship. believeth all things--unsuspiciously believes all that is not palpably false, all that it can with a good conscience believe to the credit of another. Compare Jam 3:17, "easy to be entreated"; Greek, "easily persuaded." hopeth--what is good of another, even when others have ceased to hope. endureth--persecutions in a patient and loving spirit.
Other Bible passages linked to this one, most cited first.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.