What does 1 Corinthians 13:6 mean?
Here Paul contrasts what love celebrates with what it refuses to celebrate. Love "rejoiceth not in iniquity." It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, whether our own or someone else's, and it does not enjoy gossip about another person's failures. Instead, it "rejoiceth in the truth." Love and truth belong together. Real love is not blind to sin or willing to call wrong right just to keep the peace; it is glad when truth wins and when people walk in it. In a church where some boasted about tolerating serious sin, Paul reminds them that genuine love always stands on the side of what is good and true.
1 Corinthians 13:6 in the King James Version
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Context
5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
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What does 1 Corinthians 13:6 mean?
Here Paul contrasts what love celebrates with what it refuses to celebrate. Love "rejoiceth not in iniquity." It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, whether our own or someone else's, and it does not enjoy gossip about another person's failures. Instead, it "rejoiceth in the truth." Love and truth belong together. Real love is not blind to sin or willing to call wrong right just to keep the peace; it is glad when truth wins and when people walk in it. In a church where some boasted about tolerating serious sin, Paul reminds them that genuine love always stands on the side of what is good and true.
What does 1 Corinthians 13:6 say in the KJV?
1 Corinthians 13:6 (KJV) reads: “Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”