The Wide Scope of Love
H. W. Beecher. 1 Corinthians 13:7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Grief is near-sighted, and holds its trouble close up, but love is long-sighted, and takes the events of life, and looks at them in all points of view, and sees how they look against the east, and how against the west, how toward the north, and how toward the south, how above and how below, how against one background, and how against another. Love looks upon a thing all around, in its germs and in its fruits, in its presence and in its coming. It sympathises not with the limitation of grief, but with the largeness of that love of humanity which is in every event. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. WEB: bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.