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A.Tongues, Prophecy, Martyrdom — and Still Nothingvv. 1-3

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

B.What Love Actually Doesvv. 4-7

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. 6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

C.Now We See Dimly; Then, Face to Facevv. 8-13

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. 12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

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Chapter summary

The love chapter.

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The love chapter. Though I speak with tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am nothing. Charity suffereth long and is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly; seeketh not her own. Charity never faileth. Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Wesley reads this as the crown of the Corinthian correctives. Every gift is nothing without love.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Epistle · Paul — 1 Corinthians overview

  • A. 1–3 Tongues, Prophecy, Martyrdom — and Still Nothing
  • B. 4–7 What Love Actually Does
  • C. 8–13 Now We See Dimly; Then, Face to Face
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    • Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
    • Galatians 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
    • Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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  • 1 John 43 verses
    • 1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
    • 1 John 4:8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
    • 1 John 4:20If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
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  • 1 John 32 verses
    • 1 John 3:2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
    • 1 John 3:16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.