1 Corinthians 13:7 (WEB)
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Catechism · 1
“Charity bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 13:4-7.
Fathers and councils · 25
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 I–X VII.5Conference VII
“For it “endureth all things, suffereth all things, beareth all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 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 - John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVI.27Conference XVI
“…it; but be ye enlarged in your hearts, receiving the adverse waves of anger in the wide gulf of that love which “suffereth all things, beareth all things;” and so your mind will be enlarged with wide long-suffering and patience, and will have within it safe recesses of counsel, in which the foul smoke of anger…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But because “charity believeth all things” (amongst those at all events whom by union with itself it maketh one), I too, O Lord, also so confess unto Thee that men may hear, to whom I cannot prove whether I confess the truth, yet do they believe me whose ears charity openeth unto me.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
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“…says he had great grief for his brethren; in whatever way it endure what bitterness and hardships soever, it is the love of God which “endureth all things,” and which is not shed abroad in our hearts but by the Holy Spirit given unto us.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7
Read the whole comment“…their Jewish enemies put them out of the synagogues, and slew them, with the thought that they were doing God service; because the charity beareth all things, which was to be shed abroad in their hearts by the gift of the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
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Jerome
“And—for “charity endureth all things,”—I beg you to get from Pope Valerian a letter to confirm her resolution.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
Read the whole comment“But charity overcomes all things, and my regard for you defeats my determination.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
Read the whole comment“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.
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Basil the Great
“I have been the first to betake myself to writing, because I know that “charity beareth all things…endureth all things…seeketh not her own” and so “never faileth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7 and 8.
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Cyprian of Carthage
““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.
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Ambrose of Milan
“As the Apostle says: “It beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things; love never faileth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7, 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…Who asks for little and bestows great things, both in the present and in the future, upon those who truly love Him; bearing all things, enduring all things for their love and hope of Him, giving thanks for all things favourable and unfavourable alike: I mean pleasant and painful, for reason knows that even these…” — editor's note: Ib. xiii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Nay, He beareth all things, He endureth all things.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Love never faileth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7, 8.
Read the whole comment““The charity which bears all things, endures all things,” is assured that Divine Providence orders all things well.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Love beareth all things, suffereth all things.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
Read the whole comment“But the perfect man, out of love, “beareth all things, endureth all things,” “as not pleasing man, but God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 7.
Read the whole comment“But the greatest of these is Love.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 4–8, 13.
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Cross-references · 25
Cited together in Confessions X.3.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 14.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.27.
Cited together in Confessions X.3.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Confessions X.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.27.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.10.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.27.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.10.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.27.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 14 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions X.3.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.