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Lexham English Bible

1 Corinthians 16:14

All your actions must be done in love.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Charitableness;   Commandments;   Love;   Thompson Chain Reference - All Things;   Things, All;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - 1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Expediency;   Silas or Silyanus;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Do everything in love.
King James Version (1611)
Let all your things be done with charitie.
King James Version
Let all your things be done with charity.
English Standard Version
Let all that you do be done in love.
New American Standard Bible
All that you do must be done in love.
New Century Version
Do everything in love.
Amplified Bible
Let everything you do be done in love [motivated and inspired by God's love for us].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let all that you do be done in love.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let all that you do be done in love.
Berean Standard Bible
Do everything in love.
Contemporary English Version
Show love in everything you do.
Complete Jewish Bible
Let everything you do be done in love.
Darby Translation
Let all things ye do be done in love.
Easy-to-Read Version
Do everything in love.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let all your things be done in loue.
George Lamsa Translation
Let all your deeds be done with love.
Good News Translation
Do all your work in love.
Literal Translation
Let all your things be in love.
American Standard Version
Let all that ye do be done in love.
Bible in Basic English
Let all you do be done in love.
Hebrew Names Version
Let all that you do be done in love.
International Standard Version
Everything you do should be done in love.1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Peter 4:8;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And let all your affairs be done in love.
Murdock Translation
Let all your affairs be conducted with love.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let al your thinges be done with loue.
English Revised Version
Let all that ye do be done in love.
World English Bible
Let all that you do be done in love.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Let all your affairs be done in love.
Weymouth's New Testament
Let all that you do be done from motives of love.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and be alle youre thingis don in charite.
Update Bible Version
Let all that you do be done in love.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let all your things be done with charity.
New English Translation
Everything you do should be done in love.
New King James Version
Let all that you do be done with love.
New Living Translation
And do everything with love.
New Life Bible
Everything you do should be done in love.
New Revised Standard
Let all that you do be done in love.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let, all your affairs, in love, be carried on.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let all your things be done in charity.
Revised Standard Version
Let all that you do be done in love.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Let all youre busynes be done in love.
Young's Literal Translation
let all your things be done in love.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
let all youre thinges be done in loue.
Mace New Testament (1729)
let all your transactions flow from social affections.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Do nothing without love.

Contextual Overview

13 Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act courageously, be strong. 14 All your actions must be done in love. 15 Now I urge you, brothers—you know about the household of Stephanas, that they are the first fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the ministry for the saints— 16 that you also be subject to such people, and to all those who work together and labor. 17 Now I rejoice over the arrival of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because these make up for your absence, 18 for they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore recognize such people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Corinthians 8:1, 1 Corinthians 12:31, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, 1 Corinthians 14:1, John 13:34, John 13:35, John 15:17, Romans 13:8-10, Romans 14:15, Galatians 5:13, Galatians 5:14, Galatians 5:22, Ephesians 4:1-3, Philippians 2:1-3, 1 Thessalonians 3:6, 1 Thessalonians 3:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 4:10, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Timothy 1:5, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Peter 4:8, 2 Peter 1:7, 1 John 4:7, 1 John 4:8

Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 13:13 - the greatest 1 Corinthians 16:24 - love Ephesians 5:2 - walk Philippians 1:27 - that ye

Cross-References

Genesis 14:7
Then they turned back and came to En-Mishpat (that is, Kadesh). And they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were living in Hazazon-Tamar.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place is called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.
Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac was coming from the direction of Beer-Lahai-Roi. And he was living in the land of the Negev.
Genesis 25:11
And it happened that after the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac settled at Beer-Lahai-Roi.
Numbers 13:26
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the Israelites in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let all your things be done with charity. Signifying, that the whole of their obedience to Christ, their observation of, and subjection to all his ordinances and commands, should spring from, and be done in love to him; and that the whole of their conduct and behaviour towards one another ought to be with charity, which bears all things, and covers a multitude of sins; and that all their church affairs, their business at church meetings, should be transacted, not with strife and vain glory, but in peace, and with mutual affection, with a concern for the good of each other, and of the whole body, and for the glory of God; for without charity or love, and the exercise of this grace, it signifies little what men either have or do; and such an exhortation was the more necessary to this church, since it was so full of factions, contentions, and divisions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let all your things ... - All that you do. This direction is repeated on account of its great importance, and because it is a summing up of all that he had said in this Epistle; see 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; 1 Corinthians 14:1. Here he says, that charity, or love, was to regulate all that they did. This was a simple rule; and if this was observed, every thing would be done well.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 16:14. Let all your things be done with charity. — Let love to God, to man, and to one another, be the motive of all your conduct.


 
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