1 Peter 4:8

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1 Peter 4:8

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Above

Colossians 3:14

James 5:12

3 John 1:2

For

General references

Bible References

Above

Above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness,

But above all things, my brethren, swear not: neither by heaven, neither by earth, neither by any other oath. Let your yea be "yea," and your nay, "nay," lest ye fall into hypocrisy.

Wellbeloved, I wish in all things that thou prosperedest and faredest well, even as thy soul prospereth.

For

Evil will stirreth up strife; but love covereth the multitude of sins.

A fool uttereth his wrath in all the haste, but a discreet man forgiveth wrong.

Whoso covereth another man's offense, seeketh love; but he that discloseth the fault, setteth friends at variance.

He that giveth sentence in a matter before he hear it, is a fool, and worthy to be confounded.

suffereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth in all things.

let the same know, that he which converted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide the multitude of sins. {Here ends the General Epistle of James}

General references

And Shem and Japheth took a mantle, and put it on both their shoulders and went backward, and covered their father's secrets, but their faces were backward, so that they saw not their father's nakedness.

And she said, "Drink, my lord." And she hasted and let down her pitcher upon her arm and gave him drink.

This is my commandment: that ye love together as I have loved you.

Let all your business be done in love.

Let brotherly love continue.

And this commandment have we of him: that he which loveth God, should love his brother also.