The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:7
Beareth all things (see on 1 Corinthians 9:12 ). Endures wrongs and evils, and covers them with a beautiful reticence. Thus love "covereth all sins" ( Proverbs 10:12 ; 1 Peter 4:8 ). Believeth all things. Takes the best and kindest views of all men and all circumstances, as long as it is possible to do so. It is the opposite to the common spirit, which drags everything in deteriorem partem, paints it in the darkest colours, and makes the worst of it. Love is entirely alien from the... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
The grace of charity. When we speak of charity ( ἀγάπη ) it is in the sense attached to the word in the New Testament. We do not speak of promiscuous and impulsive almsgiving, in which there is often but the veriest morsel of charity, and which, in our condition of society, is almost an unmitigated evil, tending as it does to the maintenance of an indigent and pauperized class. We do not speak of that kind of natural affection ( ἔρος ) which binds men together with the ties of... read more