1 Peter 4:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But aboue all thynges, haue feruent loue among your selues: For loue shall couer the multitude of sinnes.

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  • Prov 10:12 : 12 Hatred stirreth vp strifes: but loue couereth the multitude of sinnes.
  • Prov 17:9 : 9 Who so couereth a fault, procureth loue: but he that discloseth it, deuideth very frendes.
  • Col 3:14 : 14 And aboue all thynges put on loue, which is the bonde of perfectnesse.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Euen ye which haue purified your soules through the spirite in obeying the trueth, with brotherly loue vnfayned, see that ye loue one another with a pure heart feruentlye:
  • Jas 5:20 : 20 Let the same knowe, that he which conuerteth the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall saue a soule from death, and shall hyde the multitude of sinnes.
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And the Lorde encrease you, & make you abounde in loue one towarde another, and towarde all men, euen as we also towarde you,
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But as touchyng brotherly loue, ye nede not that I write vnto you: For ye are taught of God to loue one another. 10 Yea and that thyng veryly ye do vnto all ye brethren which are in al Macedonia: But we beseche you brethren, that ye encrease more and more:
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to thanke God alwayes for you brethren, as it is meete, because that your fayth groweth exceedyngly, and the loue of euery one of you toward another aboundeth:
  • 1 Cor 13:1-14:1 : 1 Though I speake with the tongues of men and of Angels, and haue not loue, I am as soundyng brasse, or as a tincklyng Cimball: 2 And though I coulde prophesie, and vnderstoode all secretes, and all knowledge: Yea, if I had all fayth, so that I coulde moue mountaynes out of their places, and haue not loue, I were nothyng. 3 And though I bestowe all my goodes to feede the poore, and though I geue my body that I burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothyng. 4 Loue suffreth long, and is curteous: Loue enuieth not, loue doth not frowardely, swelleth not, 5 Dealeth not dishonestlie, seeketh not her owne, is not prouoked to anger, thynketh none euyll, 6 Reioyceth not in iniquitie: bur reioyceth in the trueth: 7 Suffreth all thynges, beleueth all thynges, hopeth all thynges, endureth all thynges. 8 Though ye prophesiynges fayle, other tongues ceasse, or knowledge vanishe away, yet loue falleth neuer away. 9 For our knowledge is vnperfect, and our prophesiyng is vnperfect: 10 But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is vnperfect shalbe done away. 11 When I was a chylde, I spake as a childe, I vnderstode as a childe, I imagined as a chylde: But assoone as I was a man, I put away chyldishnesse. 12 Nowe we see in a glasse, euen in a darke speakyng: but then shall we see face to face. Nowe I knowe vnperfectly: but then shall I knowe euen as I am knowen. 13 Nowe abydeth fayth, hope, and loue, these three, but the chiefe of these is loue. 1 Folowe after loue, and couet spirituall giftes but most chiefelie that ye may prophesie.
  • 2 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 In knowledge temperaunce, in temperaunce pacience, in pacience godlynesse, 7 In godlynesse brotherly kyndnesse, in brotherly kyndnesse loue.
  • 3 John 1:2 : 2 Beloued, I wishe in all thynges that thou prosperedst and faredst well, euen as thy soule prospereth.
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the ende of the commaundement, is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, & of fayth vnfaigned.
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly loue continue.
  • Prov 18:13 : 13 He that geueth sentence in a matter before he heare it, the same to hym is folly and shame.
  • Prov 12:16 : 16 A foole vttereth his wrath in all the haste: but a discrete man couereth his owne shame.

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