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Verse 1 Corinthians 13:9. _FOR WE KNOW IN PART_] We have here but
little knowledge even of _earthly_, and much less of _heavenly_,
things. He that knows most knows little in comparison of what is kno...
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FOR WE KNOW IN PART - Compare the note on 1 Corinthians 12:27. This
expression means “only in part;” that is, “imperfectly.” Our
knowledge here is imperfect and obscure. It may, therefore, all vanish...
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3. THE NEED AND SUPERIORITY OF LOVE.
CHAPTER 13
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1. The Preeminence of Love. (1 Corinthians 13:1 .)
2. Love described in its characteristics. (1 Corinthians 13:4 .)
3. Love never faileth; its Pe...
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1 CORINTHIANS 13. ALL GIFTS AND SACRIFICES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT LOVE,
WHICH IS SUPREME AND INCOMPARABLE. The chapter falls into three
divisions: (_a)_ superlative gifts and costliest surrenders are
v...
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THE HYMN OF LOVE (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)
13 I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have
not love, I am become no better than echoing brass or a clanging
cymbal. I may have the gi...
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KNOW. App-132.
IN PART. Greek. _ek_ (App-104.) _merous._...
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_and we prophesy in part_ All inspired utterances are but partial
revelations of Divine Truth....
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1 Corinthians 12:31 Ch. 1 Corinthians 13:13. The Excellencies of Love
_and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way_ Literally, AND
FURTHERMORE I SHEW YOU AN EMINENTLY EXCELLENT WAY, i.e. the way of
l...
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1 Corinthians 12:31 to 1 Corinthians 13:13. THE EXCELLENCIES OF LOVE
ΚΑῚ ἜΤΙ ΚΑΘ' ὙΠΕΡΒΟΛῊΝ ὉΔῸΝ ὙΜΙ͂Ν
ΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ. AND MOREOVER I SHEW YOU A WAY OF SUPERLATIVE
EXCELLENCE. This, St Paul would have us un...
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_THE UNPERISHABLE NATURE OF LOVE 1 CORINTHIANS 13:8-10:_ Love is said
to "never fail," though the miraculous spiritual gifts were to be made
"null" or "useless" in time. "Charity never faileth: but wh...
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ΈΚ ΜΈΡΟΥΣ (G1537; G3304) отчасти, частично.
Оба раза это слово выделено в данном
стихе (RWP)....
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DISCOURSE: 1987
THE SAINTS’ VIEWS IN HEAVEN
1 Corinthians 13:9. We know in part, and we prophecy in part. But when
that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be
done away. When I...
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FOR WE KNOW IN PART, &C.— The wisest of men have here but short,
narrow, imperfect conceptions even of the things round about them; and
much more of the deep things of God: and even the prophesies whi...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Text_
1 Corinthians 13:8-12. Love never faileth: but whether there be
prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they
shall cease; whether there be knowledge...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Giftedness is Temporary, Love is Eternal (1 Corinthians 13:8-13)
8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for
tongues, they will cease; as for knowle...
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
IN PART - partially and imperfectly. Compare a similar contrast to
the "perfect man," Ephesians 4:11.
THAT WHICH IS IN PART - fragmentary and isolat...
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13 The body of Jesus, or of the Lord, denotes His physical frame. The
body of Christ, however, is quite a distinct thought. Christ, or the
Anointed, is a title rather than a name. It suggests official...
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13:9 know (e-3) _ Ginosko_ . see Note, ch. 8.1....
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_(e) Spiritual Gifts
(ii) The most excellent Gift of Charity_
In this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe the
most fragrant odours. Passing from the previous Chapter s with their
t...
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IN PART] partially, imperfectly....
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LOVE IS ETERNAL. Other gifts, knowledge, prophecy, tongues serve but a
temporary purpose. 'They are only means towards an end. Love remains
the completion and perfection of our human being' (F. W. Rob...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 13
LOVE 13:1-13
1. THE ABSENCE OF LOVE 13:1-3
V1 Suppose that I speak in the languages of people and *angels. If I
have no love, I am onl...
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WE KNOW IN PART. — Knowledge and preaching are incomplete;
therefore, when this dispensation ends, and the complete dispensation
is brought in, these imperfect gifts shall cease. Gifts are but the
imp...
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CHAPTER 19
NO GIFT LIKE LOVE
THIS is one of the passages of Scripture which an expositor scruples
to touch. Some of the bloom and delicacy of surface passes from the
flower in the very handling whic...
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1 Corinthians 13:9-10 : reasons why _Prophecy_ and _Knowledge_ must be
abolished. Though amongst the μείζονα (1 Corinthians 12:31) and
rich in edification (1 Corinthians 14:6), these c
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§ 43. THE QUALITIES OF CHRISTIAN LOVE. The previous vv. have
justified the καθʼ ὑπερβολὴν of 1 Corinthians 12:31.
The loftiest human faculties of man are seen to be frustrate without
love; by its aid...
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THE ONE ESSENTIAL FOR ALL
1 Corinthians 13:1
With what wonder his amanuensis must have looked up, as the Apostle
broke into this exquisite sonnet on love! His radiant spirit had
caught a glimpse of t...
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The apostle dealt with love, its values (verses 1Co 13:1-3), its
virtues (verses 1Co 13:4-7), and its victory (verses 1Co 13:8-13). The
values of love are discovered in the fact that, apart from it, a...
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The Temporary Nature of Spiritual Gifts
Spiritual gifts were needed to aid in the growth and development of
the early church. The need for those gifts came to an end when God's
will was completely rev...
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(4) For we know in (h) part, and we prophesy in part.
(4) The reason: because we are now in the state that we have need to
learn daily, and therefore we have need of those helps, that is, of
the gift...
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The reading γάρ, _for_, is evidently preferable to the δέ,
_then_, of the Byz. The apostle wishes to explain why this doing away
shall take place. Prophecy lifts on each occasion only a corner of the...
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1 Corinthians 13:8-13 .
The absolute duration of charity is developed in these last verses:
first, in opposition to gifts, then even in contrast to the other two
fundamental virtues, faith and hope....
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“Charity never faileth. As to prophecies, they shall be done away;
as to tongues, they shall cease; as to knowledges, they shall be done
away. 9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10. But...
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II. THE WAY PAR EXCELLENCE. CHAP. 13.
This chapter has been called a hymn. In tone indeed it is truly
lyrical, especially in the first verses. Charity is poetically
personified. In this respect the pa...
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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. For we know in part, and we proph...
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As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle
give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle
speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
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He now proves that _prophecy, _and other gifts of that nature, are
done away, (798) because they are conferred upon us to help our
infirmity. Now our imperfection will one day have an end. Hence the
u...
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Nevertheless there was something more excellent than all gifts. They
were the manifestations of the power of God and of the mysteries of
His wisdom; love, that of His nature itself.
They might speak w...
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FOR WE KNOW IN PART,.... Not that the Scriptures, the rule and measure
of knowledge, and from whence spiritual knowledge is derived, are
imperfect; so that there is need of unwritten traditions, and o...
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
Ver. 9. _We prophesy in part_] We therefore know but imperfectly,
because we are taught but imperfectly. My greatest knowledge, said
Chytraeus, is to kno...
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1 Cor. 13:8-12. "Charity never faileth: but whether there be
prophecies, they shall fail; - For we know in part, and we prophesy in
part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in...
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_Love never faileth_ It accompanies us to, prepares us for, and adorns
us in eternity; nay, it is the very felicity of heaven. In these
respects it materially differs from, and has an apparent advanta...
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WE KNOW IN PART; that is, in our present state.
WE PROPHESY IN PART; we are not capable of either receiving or
communicating truth by prophecy, except in a partial and imperfect
way....
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FOR WE KNOW IN PART, AND WE PROPHESY IN PART....
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The eternal duration of love:...
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Verses 1 Timothy 3 of this chapter show the necessity of love; verses
4 to 7 the characteristics of love; and verses 8 to 13 its permanence.
And in the first section, verse I deals with what I speak;...
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FOR WE KNOW IN PART, AND WE PROPHESY IN PART;
'For' -explains the reason why these spiritual gifts will cease. All
the spiritual gifts had some relationship to the revelation of the
Word of God. Gift...
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8-13 Charity is much to be preferred to the gifts on which the
Corinthians prided themselves. From its longer continuance. It is a
grace, lasting as eternity. The present state is a state of childhoo...
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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 t...
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;...
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1 Corinthians 13:9 For G1063 know G1097 (G5719) in G1537 part G3313
and G2532 prophesy G4395 (G5719) in
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LOVE MUST LIE AT THE ROOT OF ALL WE DO ESPECIALLY OUR MINISTRY TO THE
CHURCH (13:1-13).
Paul now deals with what must lie behind the use of spiritual gifts,
if they are to be truly spiritual. And in s...
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'Love never fails. But whether there be prophecies, they shall be done
away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be
knowledge, it shall be done away. For we know in part, and we...
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LOVE WILL INDEED OUTLIVE ALL SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND IS EVEN GREATER THAN
FAITH AND HOPE (13:8B-13).
For then we are brought back to how such love compares with the
subject in hand. Prophecies, tongues...
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1 Corinthians 13:9. FOR WE KNOW IN PART even in respect of the
supernatural gift of knowledge AND WE PROPHESY IN PART in necessarily
broken, fragmentary utterances, giving at best but imperfect views...
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IN PART
(εκ μερους). See on 1 Corinthians 12:27. As opposed to the
whole....
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1 Corinthians 13:9
I. "We know in part." This limitation is imposed upon us briefly. Of
all that is, of all that ever we, with our present faculties, feel
must be, we can know but a small fraction. Ou...
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1 Corinthians 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._
If there be no love to God, and no love to man,...
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CONTENTS: Love, the supreme gift of the Spirit, and its governing
power over other gifts.
CHARACTERS: Paul.
CONCLUSION: Love alone can give value to any service rendered in
Christ's name, and it is...
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The apostle having spoken of the adornings of the church, which is the
body of Christ, proceeds now to treat of her internal glory; and that
glory is charity, for without this, all other endowments ar...
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ARE ONLY PARTIAL. Our gifts are limited by the limitations placed on
them. Compare 1 Peter 1:10-11 for an example of this.
10. BUT WHEN WHAT IS PERFECT COMES. Most scholars believe _the
perfect_ will...
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_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._
CHARITY
Each of the apostles had a predominant feature of character....
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CHARITY NEVER FAILETH;… PROPHECIES SHALL FAIL;… TONGUES SHALL
CEASE;… KNOWLEDGE SHALL VANISH AWAY.
CHARITY NEVER FAILETH
I. As the living principle in the heart of believers. In its essence
it is the...
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_We know in part, and we prophesy in part._
WE KNOW IN PART
I. The imperfection of our knowledge.
1. We know but little.
2. That little is mixed with much error.
3. Includes much that is useless....
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CHAPTER 13
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. He points out that of all gifts and graces, charity is the first,
and that without charity no gift or virtue is of any use.
II. He enumerates (ver. 4) the sixt...
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_For we know in part and we prophesy in part, i.e._, imperfectly.
Ephrem turns it. "We know but little of much;" for the Apostle opposes
what is little and imperfect, what we know partly by reason, pa...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1. THESE NEED BE VERY FEW; the language of the chapter is of the
simplest, the thought inexhaustibly full.
2. Note, Paul, not John, writes this chapter on LOVE.
3. The “I” is not s...
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 13:1
_The supremely excellent way of Christian love. _This chapter has been
in all ages the object of the special admiration of the Church. Would
that it had received in all...
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Let's turn to the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians.
The thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians actually begins with chapter
12. Paul was talking in chapter 12 about the various gifts of the Holy
Spiri...
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1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 8:2; 1 John 3:2;...
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THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY
1 Corinthians 13:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The love of God. The great love of God verse is John 3:16. Another
great love verse is Romans 5:8. The whole Bible is, however, one st...
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part — The wisest of men
have here but short, narrow, imperfect conceptions, even of the things
round about them, and much more of the deep things of God. And e...