12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
12 Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
12 Hatred starts fights, but love pulls a quilt over the bickering.
12 Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.
12 Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love makes up for all offenses.
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
7 Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
(Read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
Some of the effects of charity are stated, that we may know whether we have this grace; and that if we have not, we may not rest till we have it. This love is a clear proof of regeneration, and is a touchstone of our professed faith in Christ. In this beautiful description of the nature and effects of love, it is meant to show the Corinthians that their conduct had, in many respects, been a contrast to it. Charity is an utter enemy to selfishness; it does not desire or seek its own praise, or honour, or profit, or pleasure. Not that charity destroys all regard to ourselves, or that the charitable man should neglect himself and all his interests. But charity never seeks its own to the hurt of others, or to neglect others. It ever prefers the welfare of others to its private advantage. How good-natured and amiable is Christian charity! How excellent would Christianity appear to the world, if those who profess it were more under this Divine principle, and paid due regard to the command on which its blessed Author laid the chief stress! Let us ask whether this Divine love dwells in our hearts. Has this principle guided us into becoming behaviour to all men? Are we willing to lay aside selfish objects and aims? Here is a call to watchfulness, diligence, and prayer.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 10:12
Commentary on Proverbs 10:12
(Read Proverbs 10:12)
Where there is hatred, every thing stirs up strife. By bearing with each other, peace and harmony are preserved.