Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Charity.dealeth not perversely. The Greek word here seems taken from the Latin. St. Chrysostom expounds it, is not rash, but acteth prudently and considerately. Others, it is not light or inconstant. Others, it braggeth, or vaunteth not, as in the Protestant translation. (Witham)