1 Corinthians 13

WEEK 6                                         1 Corinthians 13

THURSDAY  Reflections

In 1967 the Beatles sang, "All you need is love." This chapter disagrees it says Faith, Hope, and Love endure. This being said it does say love is the greatest. The problem is often times people don't know what love is. 1 Corinthians 13 gives us not just a warning about how worthless everything is people do without love, but a list of what love does do. This is one of the greatest chapters in the Bible, but it isn't the only chapter. For like the final verse says there is also faith and hope. We need all of it. Not just love.

 On a side note:1 Corinthians 13 is often read at weddings, but looking at the number of divorces makes me think it really isn't listened to. This isn't the fault of the chapter. It's those who listen and don't apply it. Read chapter 13 again and ask yourself, "Am I living like this?"

1Co 13:1-13
(1)  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.

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