1 Corinthians 13:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἡ ἀγάπη μακροθυμεῖ, χρηστεύεται· ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ ζηλοῖ· ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ περπερεύεται, οὐ φυσιοῦται,

Transliteration

The agapē makrothymei, chrēsteuetai; the agapē not zēloi; the agapē not perpereuetai, not physioutai,

Grammar Details

• *Hē*: nominative, feminine, singular article - the
• *agapē*: nominative, feminine, singular - love
• *makrothymei*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - is patient/long-suffering
• *chrēsteuetai*: present, middle, indicative, 3rd person singular - is kind/acts kindly
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *zēloi*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - envies/is jealous
• *perpereuetai*: present, middle, indicative, 3rd person singular - boasts/is vainglorious
• *physioutai*: present, passive, indicative, 3rd person singular - is puffed up/inflated

Word Meanings

• *makrothymei*: is patient/suffers long/is longsuffering
• *chrēsteuetai*: is kind/acts benevolently/shows kindness
• *zēloi*: envies/is jealous/covets
• *perpereuetai*: boasts/brags/is vainglorious
• *physioutai*: is puffed up/becomes arrogant/is inflated with pride

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
• Prov 10:12 : 12 Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
• Col 3:12 : 12 Exhortation to Unity and Love Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,
• 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.
• 1 John 4:11 : 11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
• Eph 4:32 : 32 Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.
• 2 Cor 6:6 : 6 by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by benevolence, by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love,
• Prov 17:9 : 9 The one who forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.
• Neh 9:17 : 17 They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,
• 1 Cor 4:6 : 6 I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.
• 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 Suffering for Doing Good Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble.
• 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
• 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.
• 1 John 3:16-18 : 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. 17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
• Phil 1:15 : 15 Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.
• Col 1:11 : 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
• Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one who delights in false humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.
• 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 Some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
• 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?
• 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
• Gal 5:21-22 : 21 envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God! 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.
• Eph 4:2 : 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,
• 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,
• 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth
• 2 Tim 3:10 : 10 Continue in What You Have Learned You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,
• 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
• Jas 3:14-17 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth. 15 Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic. 16 For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.
• Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?
• Ps 10:5 : 5 He is secure at all times. He has no regard for your commands; he disdains all his enemies.
• Prov 13:10 : 10 With pride comes only contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.
• Gen 30:1 : 1 When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob,“Give me children or I’ll die!”
• Gen 37:11 : 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.
• 1 Sam 25:21-22 : 21 Now David had been thinking,“In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil. 22 God will severely punish David, if I leave alive until morning even one male from all those who belong to him!”
• 1 Sam 25:33-34 : 33 Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands! 34 Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives– he who has prevented me from harming you– if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”
• 1 Kgs 20:10-11 : 10 Ben Hadad sent another message to him,“May the gods judge me severely if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for all my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.” 11 The king of Israel replied,“Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.”
• Prov 17:14 : 14 Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; abandon strife before it breaks out!
• Prov 19:22 : 22 What is desirable for a person is to show loyal love, and a poor person is better than a liar.
• Prov 25:8-9 : 8 Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame? 9 When you argue a case with your neighbor, do not reveal the secret of another person, 10 lest the one who hears it put you to shame and your infamy will never go away.
• Prov 31:20 : 20 She opened her hand to the poor, and extended her hands to the needy.
• Prov 31:26 : 26 She has opened her mouth with wisdom, with loving instruction on her tongue.
• Eccl 7:8-9 : 8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning; likewise, patience is better than pride. 9 Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
• Eccl 10:4 : 4 If the anger of the ruler flares up against you, do not resign from your position, for a calm response can undo great offenses.
• Dan 3:19-22 : 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated. 20 He ordered strong soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire. 21 So those men were tied up while still wearing their cloaks, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, and were thrown into the furnace of blazing fire. 22 But since the king’s command was so urgent, and the furnace was so excessively hot, the men who escorted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were killed by the leaping flames.
• Matt 27:18 : 18 (For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)
• Luke 6:35-36 : 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
• Acts 7:9 : 9 The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,
• Rom 1:29 : 29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
• Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.
• 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
• Phil 2:1-5 : 1 Christian Unity and Christ’s Humility Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection or mercy, 2 complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose. 3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. 4 Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well. 5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,