1 Peter 4:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

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  • Prov 10:12 : 12 Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.
  • Prov 17:9 : 9 Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.
  • Col 3:14 : 14 and above all these things, `have' love, which is a bond of the perfection,
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
  • Jas 5:20 : 20 let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another, 10 for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;
  • 1 Cor 13:1-14:1 : 1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; 3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing. 4 The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, 6 rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; 7 all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth. 8 The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; 9 for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; 10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which `is' in part shall become useless. 11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; 12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love. 1 Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,
  • 2 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
  • 3 John 1:2 : 2 beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly love remain;
  • Prov 18:13 : 13 Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.
  • Prov 12:16 : 16 The fool -- in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

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