{"id":2431,"date":"2013-07-30T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2022-04-19T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T03:03:22","slug":"1-corinthians-134-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 13:4-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>4\u00a0<\/sup>Love suffers long\u00a0and\u00a0is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup>does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>6\u00a0<\/sup>does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>7\u00a0<\/sup>bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Love, in these verses, is contrasted with the attitude in <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2428\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">vs. 1-3<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n<h3>suffers long (v.4) \u2014 the antithesis of anger \u2014 self-restraint in the face of provocation \u2014 calm, without petulance \u00a0\u2014 a passive quality<\/h3>\n<h3>kind (v.4) \u2014 doing good, benefiting \u2014 an active quality<\/h3>\n<h3>envy (v.4) \u2014 wanting to deprive another of what he has and wanting the same thing for one&#8217;s self<\/h3>\n<h3>parade (v.4) \u2014 make a show of supposed superiority<\/h3>\n<h3>puffed up (v.4) \u2014 demonstrate pride<\/h3>\n<h3>rudely (v.5) \u2014 bad mannered<\/h3>\n<h3>does not seek its own (v.5) \u2014 doesn&#8217;t pursue its own interests or insist on its own rights<\/h3>\n<h3>is not provoked (v.5) \u2014 isn&#8217;t angered \u2014 good natured (&#8220;easily&#8221; in the KJV is not in the Greek)<\/h3>\n<h3>thinks no evil (v.5) = doesn&#8217;t take evil into account \u2014 doesn&#8217;t resent or hold grudges<\/h3>\n<h3>does not rejoice in iniquity (v.6) \u2014 doesn&#8217;t find joy in the wrongdoing of others<\/h3>\n<h3>bears (v.7) \u2014 supports what is placed upon it and covers what is placed under it<\/h3>\n<h3>believes all things (v.7) \u2014 thinks the best of another, imputes good motives, even to unkindness, when there is any room for doubt<\/h3>\n<h3>hopes (v.7) \u2014 expects the best &#8230;<\/h3>\n<h3>endures (v.7) \u2014 even in the face of repeated disappointment.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\u00a0Love suffers long\u00a0and\u00a0is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5\u00a0does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6\u00a0does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2431\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}