1 Corinthians 13:7-13
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
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 put the ways of childhood behind me.
12 For now we see only a 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.
Context
- Why is it so important that Chapter 13 is between chapters 12 & 14…
Reflection
- How good is giftedness without love? (1 Corinthians 8:1, 12:31, 13:1-3, 14:1)
- How does agape love…
- Bear all things?… believe all things?
- Hope all things?… endure all things? (Psalm 103:2-11, Isaiah 43:1, 2, John 10:10, 11)
- Unlike prophecy, tongues and knowledge; why does Love never cease? (Colossians 3:3, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 John 3:2, 4:16)
- What happens when ‘the perfect’ comes? (Isaiah 11:9, 29:18, Jeremiah 23:4, 1 John 2:28, 3:2, Romans 8:29, Revelation 21:1-4) How does growing in love lead to maturity? (Ephesians 4:14-16, 2 Pet 3:18)
Testimony Time
- How will fixing my eyes on Jesus and ‘Christ in me’ empower all 15 attributes of agape love? (John 15:5, 9, 10 , 1 Corinthians 16:14, Hebrews 12:2, 1 John 3:16, 4:9, 16, Philippians 2:5-11)
- Jesus is Patient… Jesus is Kind, Jesus does not envy… Jesus does not boast. Jesus is not rude… Jesus does not seek His own… Jesus is not provoked…
- Jesus thinks no evil… Jesus does not rejoice in iniquity… Jesus rejoices in the Truth… Jesus bears all things… Jesus believes all things… Jesus hopes all things… Jesus endures al things… Jesus never fails… The Greatest of these is Jesus…
