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.
1 Corinthians 16:14
