1 Corinthians 13:1-6

1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding 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 a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

Context

  1. How is Love a ‘more excellent way’ and the key to unifying one body with many members? (1 Corinthians 12:25-31, 14:1)

Reflection

  1. How could they be so gifted, yet so unloving? (1 Corinthians 1:10, 11, 4:21, Revelation 3:4)
  2. Why is it impossible to have the ‘gifts of the Spirit’ apart from the ‘fruit of the Spirit’? (Matthew 7:22, Ephesians 5:18-21, 25, Galatians 5:22, 23)
  3. How is Love Patient, Longsuffering…?
  4. How is Love Kind…? (Romans 12:10, 15:2, 1 Corinthians 8:1-3, 1 John 4:7-11)

How is love not…
Parading itself…
Proud/puffed up…
Behave rudely…
Self seeking…
Not provoked…
Thinks no evil…
Doesn’t rejoice in evil…
Rejoices in truth…? (1 Corinthians 4:6,18,19/5:2, Phil 2:1-4)

Testimony Time

  1. How does Jesus perfectly embody each of these? (John 1:14, Ephesians 5:2)
  2. Why does agape love change everything? (Deuteronomy 6:5, John 3:16, 13:34, 35, Romans 5:5, 8, Ephesians 4:15, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 John 4:19)

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