One of the greatest laws of the bible

Sister Alvear · #1 01-07-2011, 10:20 AM

1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 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.

RandyWayne · #2 01-07-2011, 10:27 AM

Amen. So why do sermons on love (if they are ever actually preached) in hard line churches never get the same chorus of amens that a good hard holiness tirade get? Answer: Because LOVING your jerk of a neighbor is actually hard (usually) and doesn't give the same immediate feeling of gratification that shaving a beard/removing make up/ditching the TV/etc etc etc do.
Also it is much MUCH easier to AMEN! a hard holiness tirade if YOU know your not doing anything the sermon is wailing against but you KNOW the person ahead of you or behind you is! And if you can see it, then everyone else can see it also! "Can we say Amen? Amen!"

whoami · #3 01-07-2011, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Amen. So why do sermons on love (if they are ever actually preached) in hard line churches Never get the same chorus of amens that a good hard holiness tirade get? Answer: Because LOVING your jerk of a neighbor is actually hard (usually) and doesn't give the same immediate feeling of gratification that shaving a beard/removing make up/ditching the TV/etc etc etc do.
Also it is much MUCH easier to AMEN! a hard holiness tirade if YOU know your not doing anything the sermon is wailing against but you KNOW the person ahead of you or behind you is! And if you can see it, then everyone else can see it also! "Can we say Amen? Amen!"

Fixed.

RandyWayne · #4 01-07-2011, 10:39 AM

Danka!

whoami · #5 01-07-2011, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Danka!

No prob.

whoami · #6 01-07-2011, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 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.

I agree Sis. A, this is the ultimate message in my opinion.

Socialite · #7 01-07-2011, 10:53 AM

And this paranthesis in the Corinthian letter was inserted by Paul to guide how the charismata should be used. It should be soaked in that definition of love.

Sister Alvear · #8 01-07-2011, 10:53 AM

I pray everyday for God to give me baptisms of love...help me love....it is so easy to become hard and bitter....