1 Corinthians 13
Chapter Summary
Love Above All
Here is one of the favorite Bible chapters of all time! It is easier than you think to memorize the whole thing. Why don’t you try it? We often forget that there were no chapter divisions in the Bible until centuries later. This is part of the spiritual gifts dissertation Paul has been giving. He is saying, all of those gifts are important, and the church needs them all. But by far the most important thing is love. True, godly, impartial love for all humanity. We could get by without a preacher, or without a teacher, or without a treasurer. But we can’t get by without love! What will you do to show God’s love to someone today?
Today's Study Verses
1 Corinthians 13:131 Corinthians 13
KJV
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
