Most have never looked into the translation closely, but the verse that says “Love keeps no record of wrongs” has variant translations, and can actually be meaning something like this instead: “Love … does not impute evil” or “Love does not falsely charge others with wrongdoing.”
DARBY [Love] does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,
YLT [Love] doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,
The reason the traditional “keeps no record of wrongs” is problematic is that we know about the Book of Life, where records are kept of what all we have done while in the body, whether good OR bad. So if keeping a record of wrongs is a sin, then whoever is keeping the Book of Life is a sinner. So maybe this one’s worth rethinking!
Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
So, the way I see it right now, this greatest sin, the perfect example of which was the execution of the perfect Jesus, even got mentioned in the “Love Chapter” as the antithesis of it! Love does not charge the innocent with wrongdoing!
