And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
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1 Peter 4:6-10
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4:8 By its nature, love overlooks sins committed against us by others (see Prov 10:12; Matt 18:21-22; 1 Cor 13:4-7). Peter might also mean that our attitude of love, because it displays our relationship with Christ, covers our own sins and causes them to be forgiven (see Luke 7:47).
Other Bible passages linked to this one, most cited first.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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.
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