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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

It is difficult to say whether all things, which is repeated four times, refers in each case to the same things. It is necessary to examine each of these short clauses separately. In some languages it may be necessary to follow TEV’s example, where bears all things is rendered by “never gives up,” and the other instances of all things are reconstructed to “its … never fail” at the end of the verse. Love bears all things: the Greek verb is related to the word for a roof. It may mean “supports or carries
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