Parallel Verses
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],
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].
Anderson New Testament
Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,
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,
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 if I deal out all my goods in alms, and deliver up my body that I should be burned, but have not love, I am nothing advantaged by it. 4 Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride], 5 doth not act unseemly, seeketh not her own advantage, is not passionate, thinketh no evil;
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;
1 Corinthians 4:6
But these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself, and Apollos for your sake; that in us ye might learn not to be attached, beyond what is written, lest one being for one [minister], ye be puffed up [with prejudice] against another.
1 Peter 4:8
But above all things have fervent love towards each other: for love will conceal a multitude of faults.
2 Corinthians 6:6
in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
Ephesians 4:32
but be ye kind one to another, full of sensibility, forgiving mutually, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
Now we conjure you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient with all men.
Matthew 27:18
For he knew that out of 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 ye shall be the children of the Most High; for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the wicked.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, envious, sold Joseph into Egypt: yet God was with him,
Romans 1:29
replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are still carnal: for since there are among you envy, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as [other] men?
1 Corinthians 4:18
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not really come to you.
1 Corinthians 5:2
And ye are puffed up, though ought ye not rather to be grieved? that he who hath done this deed might be plucked from the midst of you.
1 Corinthians 8:1
NOW concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found of you such as ye would not: lest haply there be contentions, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Galatians 5:21-22
envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be vain-glorious, irritating one another, envying one another.
Ephesians 4:2
with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love;
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will:
Philippians 2:1-5
IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions,
Colossians 1:11
strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;
Colossians 2:18
Let no man juggle you out of your prize, voluntary in [his] humility and the worship of angels, intruding into things which he never saw, vainly puffed up by his carnal imagination;
1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but delirious with disputes and quarrels about words, from whence come wrath, contentions, evil speakings, wrong suspicions,
2 Timothy 2:25
with meekness correcting those who are opposers, if at last God may give unto them repentance so as to submit to the conviction of the truth;
2 Timothy 3:10
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word, be urgent, in season, out of season; reprove, enjoin, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
James 3:14-17
But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.
James 4:5
Think ye that the scripture saith without meaning, The spirit which dwelleth in you strongly urges to envy?
1 Peter 2:1
WHEREFORE putting far away wickedness of every kind, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all backbitings,
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, be all like-minded, sympathizing, loving fraternally, compassionate, friendly hearted,
2 Peter 1:7
and with piety fraternal affection; and with fraternal affection love.
1 John 3:16-18
By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
Romans 13:13
Let us walk becomingly as in the face of day, not in revels and drunkenness, not in impurities and wantonness, not in strife and envy.