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7. πάντα στέγει. Suffers, Vulgate, and so Wiclif and Tyndale. See note on ch. 1Co 9:12. Here it means to endure patiently indignities and affronts, save of course where the well-being of others requires that they should be repelled.
πάντα πιστεύει. ‘Not that a Christian should knowingly and willingly suffer himself to be imposed upon; not that he should deprive himself of prudence and judgment, so that he may be the more easily deceived; but that he should esteem it better to be deceived by his kindness and gentleness of heart, than to injure his brother by needless suspicion.’ Calvin. ‘It is always ready to think the best; to put the most favourable construction on anything; is glad to make all the allowance for human weakness which can be done without betraying the truth of God.’ Dr Coke. Similarly Erasmus and Wesley.
πάντα ἐλπίζει. (1) Of man, of whom love will ever hope the best, and deem reformation possible in the most hardened offenders; and (2) of God, that He will bring good out of evil, and that all the evils of this life will issue ultimately in the triumph of good.
πάντα ὑπομένει. Sustains to the end, with unshaken confidence in the goodness of God, all the persecutions and afflictions of this life.