4aLove 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;
6adoes not rejoice in iniquity, but brejoices in the truth;
7abears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether thereare prophecies, they will fail; whether thereare tongues, they will cease; whether thereis knowledge, it will vanish away.
rejoiceth in the truth—rather, "rejoiceth with the truth." Exults not at the perpetration of iniquity (unrighteousness) by others (compare Genesis 9:22-23), but rejoices when the truth rejoices; sympathizes with it in its triumphs (II John 1:4). See the opposite (II Timothy 3:8), "Resist the truth." So "the truth" and "unrighteousness" are contrasted (Romans 2:8). "The truth" is the Gospel truth, the inseparable ally of love (Ephesians 4:15; II John 1:12). The false charity which compromises "the truth" by glossing over "iniquity" or unrighteousness is thus tacitly condemned (Proverbs 17:15).
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