Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Above all things (pro pantwn). See this phrase in James 5:12.
Being fervent (ektenh exontev). Present active participle of exontev and predicate accusative of adjective ektenhv (from ekteinw, to stretch out), stretched out, here only in N.T., "holding intent you love among yourselves."
For love covereth a multitude of sins (oti agaph kaluptei plhqov amartiwn). See James 5:20 for meaning, sins of the one loved, not of the one loving.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 4:8:
1 Corinthians 13:7
James 5:12
James 5:20
1 Peter 1:22
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