1Co 13:4 Love waits patiently; it acts kindly. Love does not envy [or, is not jealous]; love does not boast; it does not become haughty.
1Co 13:5 It does not behave disgracefully; it does not seek its own [things]; it is not provoked [or, irritated]; it does not keep a record of evil.
1Co 13:6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but it rejoices with the truth.
1Co 13:7 It puts up with all [things], believes all, hopes [or, confidently expects] all, endures all.
1Co 13:8 Love never fails.....
—Analytical Literal Translation
1Co 13:5 - It doth not behave indecently - Is not rude, or willingly offensive, to any. It renders to all their due - Suitable to time, person, and all other circumstances. Seeketh not her own - Ease, pleasure, honour, or temporal advantage. Nay, sometimes the lover of mankind seeketh not, in some sense, even his own spiritual advantage; does not think of himself, so long as a zeal for the glory of God and the souls of men swallows him up. But, though he is all on fire for these ends, yet he is not provoked to sharpness or unkindness toward any one. Outward provocations indeed will frequently occur; but he triumphs over all. Love thinketh no evil - Indeed it cannot but see and hear evil things, and know that they are so; but it does not willingly think evil of any; neither infer evil where it does not appear. It tears up, root and branch, all imagining of what we have not proof. It casts out all jealousies, all evil surmises, all readiness to believe evil.
—John Wesley, Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible
LORD, we fall so short of glorifying you in the love that you have shed abroad in our hearts by your Holy Spirit.
Lead us today in living out your love, though we find we have little or none.
Supply us with that fountain that springs up within us, cleansing and giving life and refreshment.
Psa 131:1 ...LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me.
Psa 131:2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul...
“Surely I have behaved and quieted myself.” The original bears somewhat of the form of an oath, and therefore our translators exhibited great judgment in introducing the word “surely”; it is not a literal version, but it correctly gives the meaning. The Psalmist had been upon his best behaviour, and had smoothed down the roughnesses of his self-will; by holy effort he had mastered his own spirit, so that towards God he was not rebellious, even as towards man he was not haughty. It is no easy thing to quiet yourself: sooner may a man calm the sea, or rule the wind, or tame a tiger, than quiet himself. We are clamorous, uneasy, petulant; and nothing but grace can make us quiet under afflictions, irritations, and disappointments......
Blessed are those afflictions which subdue our affections, which wean us from self-sufficiency, which educate us into Christian manliness, which teach us to love God not merely when he comforts us, but even when he tries us.
—Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David
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