Parallel Verses
Anderson New Testament
Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,
New American Standard Bible
Love
King James Version
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Holman Bible
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,
International Standard Version
Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,
A Conservative Version
Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.
American Standard Version
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Amplified
Love endures with patience and serenity, love is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love does not brag and is not proud or arrogant.
An Understandable Version
[Note: The following traits should be understood in the context of love for people]. Love is patient [with people], and is kind [to them]; love does not envy [what people are or have]; love does not boast [of being superior to others], it is not arrogant [in dealing with people].
Bible in Basic English
Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
Common New Testament
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant
Daniel Mace New Testament
Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,
Darby Translation
Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,
Godbey New Testament
Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,
Goodspeed New Testament
Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.
John Wesley New Testament
Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love acteth not rashly, is not puffed up:
Julia Smith Translation
Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
King James 2000
Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
Lexham Expanded Bible
Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,
Modern King James verseion
Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Love suffereth long, and is courteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not forwardly, swelleth not,
Moffatt New Testament
Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,
Montgomery New Testament
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,
NET Bible
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
New Heart English Bible
Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,
Noyes New Testament
Love suffereth long, is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not herself, is not puffed up,
Sawyer New Testament
Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up,
The Emphasized Bible
Love, is patient, is gracious. Love, is not envious, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],
Twentieth Century New Testament
Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;
Webster
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Weymouth New Testament
Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.
Williams New Testament
Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;
World English Bible
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
Worrell New Testament
Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,
Worsley New Testament
Charity beareth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity is not insolent, is not puffed up,
Youngs Literal Translation
The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
Topics
Interlinear
Makrothumeo
Agape
ἀγάπη
Agape
love, charity, dear, charitably+ 9, feast of charity
Usage: 105
Zeloo
Ou
οὐ
Ou
οὐ
Ou
Usage: 1032
Usage: 1032
Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 13:4
Devotionals containing 1 Corinthians 13:4
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 13:4
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 13:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Love, The More Excellent Way
3 And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing. 4 Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain, 5 does nothing unbecoming, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Colossians 3:12
Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, a merciful disposition, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:
1 Corinthians 4:6
And these things, brethren, I have, in figure, applied to my self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think more of teachers than what has been written; and that no one of you be vain of one to the injury of another.
1 Peter 4:8
But, above all things, have fervent love one for another; for love will cover a multitude of sins.
2 Corinthians 6:6
by purity, by knowledge, by long forbearance, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned,
Ephesians 4:32
and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, earnestly care for the weak-minded, be of a long-suffering disposition toward all.
Matthew 27:18
For he knew that through envy they had delivered him up.
Luke 6:35-36
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind to the unthankful and the evil.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Romans 1:29
as they were filled with all unrighteousness, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity;
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?
1 Corinthians 4:18
Now, some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you;
1 Corinthians 5:2
And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken from among you.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest when I come I shall find you not, such as I wish, and I shall be found by you not such as you wish: lest there shall be contentions, envies, excitements, strife, evil speaking, whisperings, party spirit, disorderly conduct:
Galatians 5:21-22
envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
Ephesians 4:2
with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love,
Philippians 1:15
Some, indeed, preach the Christ, because of envy and a contentious disposition, and some because of good-will.
Philippians 2:1-5
If, therefore, there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort arising from love, if any participation of the Spirit, if any affections and mercies,
Colossians 1:11
strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, in order to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,
Colossians 2:18
Let no one gain his purpose in depriving you of the palm by an affected humility and worship of angels, prying into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
1 Timothy 6:4
he is mad with conceit, knowing nothing, but has a morbid fondness for questions and contentions about words, out of which come envy, strife, railing, evil suspicions,
2 Timothy 2:25
in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves, if, possibly, God may give them repentance in order to the acknowledgment of the truth,
2 Timothy 3:10
But you have fully known my teaching, my course of life, my purpose, my faithfulness, my long-suffering, my love, my patience,
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were formerly foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one an other.
James 3:14-17
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James 4:5
Do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit that dwells in us incline to envy? No.
1 Peter 2:1
Therefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, be all of the same mind, be sympathizing, lovers of the brethren, kind-hearted, humble-minded;
2 Peter 1:7
and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
1 John 3:16-18
By this we know the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Romans 13:13
Let us walk in a becoming manner, as in the day; not in riotings and in drunkenness, not in lewdness and in wantonness, not in. contention and in envy: