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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

1 Corinthians 13:6

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1 Corinthians 13:6 (WEB)

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Catechism · 1

  • §1825Article 7 · The VirtuesRead at vatican.va

    “Charity bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 13:4-7.

Fathers and councils · 10

John Cassian

  • “…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.

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  • “…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.

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  • “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.

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Basil the Great

  • “The Christian ought not to grudge another’s reputation, nor rejoice over any man’s faults; he ought in Christ’s love to grieve and be afflicted at his brother’s faults, and rejoice over his brother’s good deeds.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 6.

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Jerome

  • ““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.

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Cyprian of Carthage

Gregory of Nyssa

  • “Now, if He deliberately embraced this inactivity, He must reject working in any other possible way either; and He Who affirmed that “He worketh all things in all, as He wills,” is according to them a liar.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 6.

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Augustine of Hippo

  • “…of the Spirit is called so in a strict and proper sense, not in the way in which the same apostle elsewhere uses the expression, “Rejoiceth not in iniquity:” as if any one could rejoice in iniquity: for that transport of a mind making confused and boisterous demonstrations of joy is not joy; for this latter is…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 6.

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Clement of Alexandria

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