1 Corinthians 13:4 (WEB)
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Catechism · 2
“Charity bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 13:4-7.
“Whatever my privilege, service, or even virtue, "if I . . . have not charity, I gain nothing."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 13:1-4.
Fathers and councils · 23
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X III.7Conference III
“…not, is not puffed up, is not soon angry, dealeth not perversely, seeketh not her own, thinketh no evil,” which “beareth all things, endureth all things,” and which lastly never suffers him who follows after it to fall by the deceitfulness of sin.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4–7.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.10Conference XI
“…of Christ,” and who has not that virtue of love, which “is not grieved, is not puffed up, thinketh no evil,” which “endureth all things, beareth all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4–7.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.12Conference XI
“For “whether there be prophecies, they shall fail, whether there be tongues, they shall cease, whether there be knowledge, it shall be destroyed,” but “love never faileth,” and without it not only those most excellent kinds of gifts, but even the glory of martyrdom itself will fail.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 31; xiii. 1–8.
Read the whole comment
Gregory the Great
“But it is written, Charity seeketh not her own (1 Cor. xiii. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For it is written, Charity is patient (1 Cor. xiii. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment
Ambrose of Milan
““For charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not, and seeketh not her own.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment
John Chrysostom
““For charity envieth not.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment
Augustine of Hippo
“There was no charity in Cain; and had there been no charity in Abel, God would not have accepted his sacrifice.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“For this teaches humility, whereby both to gain and to keep charity; of which after that it had been said, “Charity envieth not;” as though we were asking the reason, how it comes to pass that it envieth not, he straightway added, “is not puffed up;” as though he should say, on this…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“Him, at any rate, not unrighteousness, but charity, made humble; “Charity, which rivalleth not, is not puffed up, seeketh not her own;” forasmuch as “Christ also pleased not Himself, but, as it is written of Him, The reproaches of such as reproached Thee have fallen upon Me.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 5
Read the whole comment“Which love (of charity) the Apostle praising and setting off, among its other good qualities, saith, that it “beareth all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 7
Read the whole comment“And so He goes on to say, “And ye shall find rest unto your souls,” for “Love is not puffed up;” and “God is Love;” and “such as be faithful in love shall rest in Him,” called back from the din which is without to silent joys.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4
Read the whole comment““It is not puffed up;” he immediately annexed the cause for which he took away envying from charity.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment
Leo the Great
“For love “is patient and kind, and envies not, acts not iniquitously, is not puffed up, is not ambitious, seeks not its own.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment
Basil the Great
“Pray only that the Lord grant me to take no step in anger, but to maintain charity, which behaveth itself not unseemly and is not puffed up.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 5 and 4.
Read the whole comment
Jerome
“Charity never faileth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 7, 8.
Read the whole comment““Charity,” writes the apostle, “suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not;…is not puffed up…beareth all things, believeth all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4–7.
Read the whole comment
Cyprian of Carthage
“…avail him, unless he kept the requirements of charity entire and inviolate, added, and said: “Charity is magnanimous, charity is kind, charity envieth not;” teaching, doubtless, and showing that whoever is magnanimous, and kind, and averse from jealousy and rancour, such a one can maintain charity.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment““Charity,” he says, “is large-souled; charity is kind; charity envieth not, is not puffed up, is not provoked, thinketh not evil; loveth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, beareth all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4–7.
Read the whole comment“Charity never faileth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 2–5, 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“Charity shall never fail.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 2–8.
Read the whole comment
Clement of Alexandria
““And love,” according to the apostle, “suffers long, and is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
Read the whole comment“But the greatest of these is Love.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4–8, 13.
Read the whole comment
Cross-references · 35
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in The Instructor III.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 101.
Cited together in The Instructor III.1.
Cited together in The Instructor III.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.10.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 130.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 38.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 38.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 38.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.10.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in The Instructor III.1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 101.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 38.
Cited together in Letters Letter 101.