1 Peter 4:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

{G1161} above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πρὸ πάντων δὲ τὴν εἰς ἑαυτοὺς ἀγάπην ἐκτενῆ ἔχοντες: ὅτι ἀγάπη καλύψει πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν.

Transliteration

Before all things but the eis heautous agapēn ektenē echontes: because agapē kalypsei plēthos hamartiōn.

Grammar Details

• *eis*: preposition - to/toward
• *heautous*: accusative, masculine, plural, reflexive pronoun - yourselves/one another
• *agapēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - love
• *ektenē*: accusative, feminine, singular - fervent/intense/earnest
• *echontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having/holding
• *agapē*: nominative, feminine, singular - love
• *kalypsei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will cover
• *plēthos*: accusative, neuter, singular - multitude/great number
• *hamartiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - of sins

Word Meanings

• *ektenē*: fervent/intense/stretched out/earnest/constant
• *kalypsei*: will cover/will hide/will conceal

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:12 : 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.
• Prov 17:9 : 9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.
• Col 3:14 : 14 and above all these things [put on] love, which is the bond of perfectness.
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently:
• Jas 5:20 : 20 let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
• 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;
• 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; 10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;
• 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;
• 1 Cor 13:1-14:1 : 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. 1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
• 2 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness; 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.
• 3 John 1:2 : 2 Beloved, I pray that in all things thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
• 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
• Heb 13:1 : 1 Let love of the brethren continue.
• Prov 18:13 : 13 He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.
• Prov 12:16 : 16 A fool's vexation is presently known; But a prudent man concealeth shame.