And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
This is the plain meaning of the words. It hence appears how absurd are the Papists, who seek to elicit from this passage their own satisfactions, as though almsgiving and other duties of charity were a sort of a compensation to God for blotting out their sins. (48) It is enough to point out by the way their gross ignorance, for in a matter so clear it would be superfluous to add many words. 