1 Corinthians 13:5

1 Corinthians 13:5

3 And ^athough I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body¹ to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 ^aLove suffers long and is ^bkind; love ^cdoes not envy; love does not parade itself, is not¹ puffed up;

5 does not behave rudely, ^adoes not seek its own, is not provoked,¹ thinks no evil;

6 ^adoes not rejoice in iniquity, but ^brejoices in the truth;

7 ^abears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

9 ^aFor we know in part and we prophesy in part.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Doth not behave itself unseemly (ouk asxhmonei). Old verb from asxhmwn (I Corinthians 12:23). In N.T. only here and I Corinthians 7:36. Not indecent.

Seeketh not its own (ou zhtei ta eauthv). Its own interests (I Corinthians 10:24, I Corinthians 10:33).

Is not provoked (ou parocunetai). Old word. In N.T. only here and Acts 17:16 which see. Irritation or sharpness of spirit. And yet Paul felt it in Athens (exasperation) and he and Barnabas had parocusmov (paroxysm) in Antioch (I Corinthians 15:39). See good sense of parocusmov in Hebrews 10:24.

Taketh not account of evil (ou logizetai to kakon). Old verb from logov, to count up, to take account of as in a ledger or note-book, "the evil" (to kakon) done to love with a view to settling the account.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 13:5:**

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