1 Corinthians 13:4 (YLT)

Passage

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

Nearby Context

1 Corinthians 13:2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

1 Corinthians 13:3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4 The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

1 Corinthians 13:5 doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

1 Corinthians 13:6 rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "love", "long-suffering", "kind", "doth", and "envy". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "love" and "long-suffering", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "and if I give away to feed..." into verse 5's "doth not act unseemly doth not seek...", so "love" and "long-suffering" belong inside that flow. In 1 Corinthians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "love" and "long-suffering" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.