1 Peter 4:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ Above all, keep your love for one another constant, for “love covers a multitude of sins.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others]. [Prov. 10:12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Common English Bible

⁸ Above all, show sincere love to each other, because love brings about the forgiveness of many sins.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But, before all things, have a constant mutual charity among yourselves. For love covers a multitude of sins.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4:8 Cross References

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife but love covers up all transgressions.

Proverbs 12:16

A fool shows his irritation immediately, but a prudent person overlooks an insult.

Proverbs 17:9

Whoever covers up an offense seeks love. Whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

Proverbs 18:13

One who answers before listening— that is his folly and his shame.

1 Corinthians 13:1

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not brag, it is not puffed up,

Colossians 3:14

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfect harmony.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

May the Lord also cause you to increase and overflow in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you,

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to always thank God for you, brothers and sisters, as is appropriate, because your faithfulness grows wonderfully, and the love of each one of you for one another continually increases.

1 Timothy 1:5

Now the goal of this command is love from of a pure heart and a clear conscience and a genuine faith.

Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue.

James 5:12

But above all, my dear brothers and sisters, do not swear—either by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath. But let your “yes” be “yes,” and your “no,” be “no”—so that you may not fall under judgment.

James 5:20

let him know that the one who turns a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth, leading to sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from a pure heart.

3 John 1:2

Loved ones, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.