OLBGrk; 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 13 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1 All gifts, how excellent soever, without charity are nothing worth. 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4 The praises of charity, 1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 and its preference to faith and hope. The apostle had promised, in the close of the former chapter, to show them a mo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY: it hath been before showed, that _the gift of prophecy, _ signifieth an extraordinary power or faculty, by which men in those primitive times were enabled to reveal the mind and will of God, either as to future contingencies, or things which should afterwards... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle proceedeth from common gifts, powers, and habits, to actions, and instanceth in two; the first of which might be a great service to men; the latter, an appearance of a great service to God. THOUGH I BESTOW ALL MY GOODS TO FEED THE POOR; though, saith he, I feed the poor with my goods, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Lest the Corinthians should say to the apostle: What is this love you discourse of? Or how shall we know if we have it? The apostle here gives thirteen notes of a charitable person. CHARITY SUFFERETH LONG: by love or _charity_ he either meaneth a charitable person, a soul possessed of that love, whi... [ Continue Reading ]
DOTH NOT BEHAVE ITSELF UNSEEMLY; he doth not behave himself towards any in an uncomely or unbeseeming manner, and will do nothing towards his brother, which in the opinion of men shall be a filthy or indecent action. SEEKETH NOT HER OWN; he doth not seek what is his own, that is, what is for his own... [ Continue Reading ]
He doth not rejoice in the sinful falls of others, but he rejoiceth in all truth, and the success and prospering of truth in the world; or in the manifestation of any person's truth, or innocency, and righteousness.... [ Continue Reading ]
The charitable man BEARETH ALL injuries with patience; he BELIEVETH ALL THINGS that are good of his brother, so far is he from being credulous to his prejudice; ENDURETH ALL THINGS that a good man ought to endure, that is, any evils done to himself. In the same sense Solomon saith, PROVERBS 10:12: _... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle, from another argument, commendeth the grace of love, viz. its never failing; it shall go with us into another world, and have its use and exercise there, where there will be no prophesying, no speaking with divers tongues, but there the saints shall love God. And this maketh it evident,... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE KNOW IN PART; it was truly said, as to things human, that the greatest part of those things that we know, is the least part of those things which we are ignorant of. A great measure of Divine things is also unknown to us, and the knowledge of them reserved for thr resurrection and day of judg... [ Continue Reading ]
But when we come to heaven, we shall be in such a state, as nothing shall or can be added to us; then our partial and imperfect knowledge shall be swallowed up in a knowledge perfect and complete.... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle compareth the state of believers in this life, compared with their state in another life, to the state of a child, compared to that of a man. Look, as one, when he is a child, knoweth things imperfectly, and discourseth of them in the style and according to the knowledge of a child; but... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle pursues his former theme, comparing the imperfect state of believers, as to knowledge in this life, with what shall be in the life that is to come. In this life it is as in a looking glass, (where we only see the images and imperfect representations of things), and darkly, in a riddle; i... [ Continue Reading ]
Take us according to our state in this life, we have, and shall have, the exercise of three graces: _faith, _ to evidence unto us those things which we do not see, either by the eye of sense or reason; HOPE, by which we wait for the receiving of them; and LOVE, by which we delight ourselves in God,... [ Continue Reading ]