1 Corinthians 16:14
in 1 Corinthians 16Do everything in love.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Let all that ye do be done in love.
KJV
Let all your things be done with charity.
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This verse in 1 Corinthians 16
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThis is against those who were disturbing and tearing apart the Church. Whether someone teaches, whether someone learns, whether someone rebukes, let everything, he says, be done with love, and through the mediation of love there will be neither pride nor division.
This site's exposition
stand fast in the faith
on 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong: four military commands in a row, the sentinel's vigilance, the soldier's ground, the man's courage, andrizesthe, and the strength that is received rather than mustered, and the bench hears the letter's whole burden compressed into a drill sergeant's cadence for a church that had been childish (3:1), unstable, and weak. Then verse 14 gives the four commands their law: let all your things be done with charity, agape governing even the militancy, chapter 13 riding shotgun on chapter 16. The exposition keeps the pair together as Paul does, courage without love hardening into the party spirit the letter began against, love without courage dissolving into the tolerance of chapter 5, the two verses being the letter's own two hands.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Where there is strife and dissension, there is no love.
The Medieval Church1 voice
He instructs them about the manner of acting when he says, let all that you do be done in love, i.e., all things should be referred to the end of charity, namely, that they might be done for the sake of God and neighbor: "And …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Let all your things be done with charity.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Let all your things be done with charity - Let love to God, to man, and to one another, be the motive of all your conduct.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Let all your things ... - All that you do. This direction is repeated on account of its great importance, and because it is a summing up of all that he had said in this Epistle; see 1Co 13:1-13; 1Co 14:1. Here he says, that charity, or love, was to regulate all that they did. This was a simple rule; and if this was observed, every thing would be done well.
The words behind it
5 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| πάντα | panta | All things | G3956 → | 1235 times |
| ὑμῶν | humon | of you | G4771 → | 2973 times |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → | 2738 times |
| ἀγάπῃ | agape | love | G26 → | 114 times |
| γινέσθω.¶ | ginestho | should be done. | G1096 → | 667 times |
πάνταAll things
pantaG3956 →1235 times
ὑμῶνof you
humonG4771 →2973 times
ἐνin
enG1722 →2738 times
ἀγάπῃlove
agapeG26 →114 times
γινέσθω.¶should be done.
ginesthoG1096 →667 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Peter 4:8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
it leads to
- Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
- Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
- Proverbs 17:9
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
- James 5:20
consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
- 1 Peter 1:22
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
- Proverbs 10:12
Through
1 Timothy 1:5The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
it leads to
- 1 Timothy 1:19
holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.
- Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- Galatians 5:13–14
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- 1 Timothy 1:19
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Corinthians
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture, Corinthians; Ambrosiaster, COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES; Charles Hodge, An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on 1 Corinthians and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on 1 Corinthians.