Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Love bears long with many things to preserve the Church's peace and unity. Patient endurance and gentleness are its first marks, but mark this: where envy reigns, where everyone strives to be first, love cannot exist at all. I set these fruits before you so you may see your own vices by contrast.
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Paul describes charity's force by contrasts and by its own effects, showing the Corinthians how far they fall short of it and how vainly they boast when they lack this grace entirely.
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Love endures evil from others without breaking, and it extends good actively to those around it. Where it dwells, there is no jealousy, no empty boasting of gifts for mere display, no party zeal that puffs a man up with pride.
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