And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
For, strictly speaking, there cannot any longer be reckoned ought against the martyrs, by whom in the baptism (of blood) life itself is laid down. Thus, "love covers the multitude of sins; "
