Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
⛓ Read Proverbs 10 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
"Love covers a multitude of sins" (4:8) verbatim-quotes Proverbs 10:12 ("love covers all transgressions"), closer to the Hebrew/proverbial sense than LXX. Foundational maxim of the pericope; cf. James 5:20.
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Love covers all offenses' (versus hatred that stirs strife) underwrites Paul's 'love takes no account of evil' and 'bears all things.' The proverb's antithesis of love that overlooks wrongs against hate that provokes maps directly onto Paul's list of what love is not (provoked, resentful). The covering/non-reckoning of evil is a strong conceptual parallel.
High confidence'Love covers all offenses' stands behind 'he who turns a sinner… will cover a multitude of sins,' the proverb of love covering sin applied to restoring the wanderer.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Bears all things' (panta stegei) reprises the love-covers-all-offenses motif: stego ('cover/bear in silence') overlaps with the proverb's love that covers transgressions. The recurrence of the covering-language across 13:5 and 13:7 strengthens the link to the Proverbs source for love's forbearance.
Medium confidencePutting away 'all bitterness, wrath, anger... and malice' in favor of forbearing love echoes 'hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.' Volume is low and the parallel is thematic, so the echo is faint though coherent with the forgiveness ethic.
Low confidence