BUTLER'S COMMENTS Chapter Thirteen THE PROBLEM OF MAINTAINING LOVE IN THE MIDST OF DIVERSITY (Miraculous Gifts) (1 Corinthians 13:1-13) IDEAS TO INVESTIGATE: 1. Why does Paul assume some of the Corinthians might not have love? 2. What is love? Who has authority to define love? 3. Why would... [ Continue Reading ]
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Giftedness Without Love (1 Corinthians 13:1-3) 13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as... [ Continue Reading ]
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Giftlessness With Love (1 Corinthians 13:4-7) 4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7Lov... [ Continue Reading ]
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, it shall be done away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is... [ Continue Reading ]
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 knowledge, it will pass away. 9For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; 10but when t... [ Continue Reading ]
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 13:13. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. _Commentary Things That Abide_ (13) _But now abideth._There was no reason for the church at Corinth to feel insecure simply because they were in the childhood perio... [ Continue Reading ]