THE SUPREMACY OF LOVE (1 OF 3)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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The Supremacy of Love (1 of 3)
Series: The Power of Love
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Beside Psalm 23 and the Lord's Prayer, 1 Corinthians 13 represents on of the most well known and loved passages in all of the Bible. Perhaps it is the most cherished passage in all of the Apostle Paul's writings. And while the word love is mentioned ten times in this one chapter, you'll not find one command in the entire chapter. Paul could have written about the importance of love in just one or two sentences. Yet, he slows the entire letter to a near stop in order to expand on love. This lofty literary accomplishment is best known from weddings. Yet, 1 Corinthians 13 is not about weddings though it is fine to repeat these words in that setting. 1 Corinthians 13 is primarily about living in a Christian community, or a church. It is the Bible's way to teach Christians how to relate to one another in a together kind of way.
Today's Scripture
''If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a ...
Series: The Power of Love
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Beside Psalm 23 and the Lord's Prayer, 1 Corinthians 13 represents on of the most well known and loved passages in all of the Bible. Perhaps it is the most cherished passage in all of the Apostle Paul's writings. And while the word love is mentioned ten times in this one chapter, you'll not find one command in the entire chapter. Paul could have written about the importance of love in just one or two sentences. Yet, he slows the entire letter to a near stop in order to expand on love. This lofty literary accomplishment is best known from weddings. Yet, 1 Corinthians 13 is not about weddings though it is fine to repeat these words in that setting. 1 Corinthians 13 is primarily about living in a Christian community, or a church. It is the Bible's way to teach Christians how to relate to one another in a together kind of way.
Today's Scripture
''If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a ...
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