11 translations · Greek
1 Peter 4:8
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
- KJV King James Version
- And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- ASV American Standard Version
- above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Before all things, having earnest love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Most of all, you should love one another very deeply, for love covers many of the wrong things people do.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
- DBY Darby Translation
- but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins;
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity will cover a multitude of sins.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρὸ | pro | Above | G4253 πρό before |
| πάντων | pantōn | all | G3956 πᾶς all |
| τὴν | tēn | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| εἰς | eis | — | G1519 εἰς toward |
| ἑαυτοὺς | heautous | one another | G1438 ἑαυτοῦ themself |
| ἀγάπην | agapēn | love | G26 ἀγάπη love |
| ἐκτενῆ | ektenē | deeply | G1618 ἐκτενής fervent |
| ἔχοντες | echontes | — | G2192 ἔχω to have/be |
| ὅτι | hoti | because | G3754 ὅτι that/since: that |
| ἀγάπη | agapē | love | G26 ἀγάπη love |
| καλύπτει | kalyptei | covers over | G2572 καλύπτω to cover |
| πλῆθος | plēthos | a multitude | G4128 πλῆθος multitude |
| ἁμαρτιῶν | hamartiōn | of sins | G266 ἁμαρτία sin |
Related verses
- Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
- Colossians 3:14
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
- Proverbs 17:9
He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
- James 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
- 1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
- 1 Corinthians 13:1–14:1
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. …
- 1 Thessalonians 3:12
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
- 1 Thessalonians 4:9–10
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
- 1 Timothy 1:5
but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
- Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
6 For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
10 As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
Read all of 1 Peter 4 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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