The Bible describes love primarily in how it behaves or acts. In doing so, it necessarily addresses how love does not behave as well. The Scriptures tell us love “is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil” (I Corinthians 13:5). At the risk of oversimplifying, if I am easily provoked or given to thinking evil, myContinue reading “Love…Not Easily Provoked, Thinketh No Evil”
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Love Hopes All Things, Endures All Things
In his letter to the Corinthian believers, Paul describes a love that is supernatural in origin and character. It is a love that is beyond the reach of human experience but for the grace of God. He tells them (and us) that among other qualities this Christ-like love “hopes all things, endures all things” (IContinue reading “Love Hopes All Things, Endures All Things”
And Now Abideth…
Paul makes a remarkable statement in his concluding remarks about love to the believers in Corinth, “And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (I Corinthians 13:13). First, he sets these three spiritual gems – faith, hope, love – in surpassing beauty to the brevity of prophecies, tonguesContinue reading “And Now Abideth…”
Love Necessarily Involves Others
Paul has been providing some inspired insights to the true nature of love in action in his first epistle to the Corinthians. We arrive at “love…bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (I Corinthians 13:7). To truly comprehend his teaching here we must remind ourselves that love is always viewedContinue reading “Love Necessarily Involves Others”
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