Paul said that love keeps no record of wrongs (1 Cor. 13:5), but he did not mean that you are blind to those wrongs. Some think that a way of forgiving is to pretend that no wrong is there. The Greek word logizetai means to ‘reckon’ or ‘impute’. It means essentially that ‘love does not store a wrong’, – that is, the wrong doesn’t go into our ‘mental computer’ to be reckoned with later on. We would say today: love doesn’t allow a wrong to be computed. But that there is wrong staring you in the face is not to be denied. In fact, the Greek word translated ‘wrong’ is kakon: evil. The wrong – the
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