Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Parallel translations
- WEB bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- BSB It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- NKJV bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- NASB it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- NLT Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
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Quick answer
Love bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things. It is resilient and steadfast in every circumstance.
Overview
Paul closes his description with four sweeping statements of love's endurance. Love covers and supports, trusts and hopes, and perseveres through hardship rather than giving up. This is not naive but a determined, hopeful commitment to others that mirrors the patient, enduring love God shows His people in Christ.
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- 1 Pet 4:8And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
- 1 Cor 13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
- 1 Pet 2:24Who 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.
- 2 Tim 2:24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
- Prov 10:12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
- Gal 6:2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
- 1 Cor 9:12If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
- Song 8:6–7Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
- 2 Tim 4:5But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
- 2 Tim 2:3–10Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
- Jas 1:12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
- Ps 119:66Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
- 2 Th 1:4So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
- Rom 15:1We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- Matt 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
- 2 Tim 3:11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
- Luke 7:44–46And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
- Gen 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
- Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- Luke 19:4–10And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
- 2 Cor 11:8–12I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
- 1 Cor 9:18–22What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
- Heb 13:13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
- Rom 8:24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
- Num 11:12–14Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
- Luke 7:37–39And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
- Deut 1:9And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
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