The focus of love is not one’s own pain, but the needs of the loved one. True, godly love forgives and refuses to keep track of personal slights received.

So often, people say they love each other, but, as soon as one gets angry, out comes the list of past sins! Accusations fly, painful memories are dredged up, and bygones are no longer bygones. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” Refusing to keep a record of wrongs is a clear expression of God’s love and forgiveness.

Jesus kept no record of wrongs rather, He prayed, “Father, forgive them,” from the cross as He died (Luke 23:34).Ĭolossians 3:13-14 also ties forgiveness to love: “Forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). On the cross He paid the price for the sins of the entire world. Jesus Christ provided the ultimate example of this type of love. To combat the attitude of demanding one’s “pound of flesh,” Paul wrote that love “keeps no record of wrongs.” In fact, it is better to be cheated than to be unloving. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?” (1 Corinthians 6:7). Paul takes a firm stand on the matter: “The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already.

Instead of settling church matters among themselves in a spirit of humility and love, they were dragging each other to court. Some in the church were bringing lawsuits against other Christians. This idea of keeping no list of wrongs directly connects with Paul’s words to the Corinthian believers earlier in the epistle.

Synonym dredge