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1 Peter 4:8
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1 Peter 4:8
8And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
8And aboue all things haue feruent charitie among your selues: for charity ‖shall couer the multitude of sinnes.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Peter 4:8
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Burning, ardent, or intensely earnest.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Love, especially self-giving love toward others.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Acts of transgression against God; offences; or, as a verb, commits sin, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study12Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
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Open the full verse study14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
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Open the full verse study9He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
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Open the full verse study20Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
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Open the full verse study22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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Open the full verse study1THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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Open the full verse study12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
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Open the full verse study9But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
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Open the full verse study5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
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Open the full verse study1LET brotherly love continue.
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Open the full verse study3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
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Open the full verse study6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
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Open the full verse study2Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
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Open the full verse study16A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
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Open the full verse study12But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
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Open the full verse study13He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
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