1 Peter 4:8

8. As to social relations, first of all stands intense love one for another. See notes on 1 Peter 1:22-23.

Shall cover Rather, covers, as with a mantle.

Sins Not our own, but those of our brethren; their faults and offences, which love overlooks and forgives, reversing the too human rule of leniency for self and strictness for others. The Romanists vainly hold the apostle as meaning that deeds of benevolence to the poor procure pardon of sin, for, as Luther rightly says, “Faith only can cover sin for thee before God.”