1Cor 13:4 | PNT | STEP | The action of love is now described. Charity suffereth long . Love endures slights and wrongs patiently and long, and returns a kindly spirit. It is "slow to anger" ( ). Christ, "when he was reviled, reviled not again" ( ). "The fruit of the Spirit is long-suffering" ( ). See also . Charity envieth not . How miserable is that envy which is made unhappy by the good fortune of another. Cain is an example. Love excludes it. A mother does not envy her child. Vaunteth not itself . Does not ostentatiously boast of superiority, not is it inflated.

1 Corinthians 13:4

The action of love is now described.

Charity suffereth long. Love endures slights and wrongs patiently and long, and returns a kindly spirit. It is "slow to anger" (Ps 103:8). Christ, "when he was reviled, reviled not again" (1Pe 2:23). "The fruit of the Spirit is long-suffering" (Ga 5:22). See also Ro 2:4 2Co 6:6.

Charity envieth not. How miserable is that envy which is made unhappy by the good fortune of another. Cain is an example. Love excludes it. A mother does not envy her child.

Vaunteth not itself. Does not ostentatiously boast of superiority, not is it inflated.