All mysteries [τ α μ υ σ τ η ρ ι α π α ν τ α]. The mysteries, all of them. See on Romans 11:25. The article indicates the well - known spiritual problems which exercise men's minds.
All faith [π α σ α ν τ η ν π ι σ τ ι ν]. All the special faith which works miracles.
Verse 1 Corinthians 13:2. _AND THOUGH I HAVE_ THE GIFT OF _PROPHECY_] Though I should have received from God the knowledge of future events, so that I could correctly foretell what is coming to pass i...
AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY - See the note at 1 Corinthians 12:10; note at 1 Corinthians 14:1. AND UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES - On the meaning of the word “mystery” see note,...
3. THE NEED AND SUPERIORITY OF LOVE. CHAPTER 13 __ 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...
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...
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...
UNDERSTAND. know. App-132. MYSTERIES. App-193. KNOWLEDGE. App-132. FAITH. App-150. REMOVE. Greek. _methistemi._ See Acts 13:22. NOTHING. Greek. _oudeis._...
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...
_all faith_ In the sense of ch. 1 Corinthians 12:9, where see note. _so that I could remove mountains_ A quotation of words recorded in St Matthew 17:20; Matthew 21:21. Whether St Matthew's Gospel wer...
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...
_THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVE 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-3:_ The Corinthian brethren were having problems dealing with spiritual gifts. Paul said the solution to the problem would be that they should pursue love, ...
ΈΧΩ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΕΧΩ (G2192) иметь. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) в _conj._ 3 типа, которое предполагает возможность уеловия. По поводу грамматики _см._ GGBB, 471, 698. ΕΊΔΏ _perf. conj. act. от_ Ο...
DISCOURSE: 1985 THE IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY 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....
ALL MYSTERIES, AND ALL KNOWLEDGE— Any predictions relating to our Saviour or his doctrine, or the times of the Gospel contained in the Old Testament, in types, or figurative and obscure expressions, n...
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 hav...
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. MYSTERIES...
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...
13:2 know (b-7) _ Oida_ . see Note, ch. 8.1....
_(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...
ALL FAITH] see on 1 Corinthians 12:9. REMOVE MOUNTAINS] Matthew 17:20; Matthew 21:21. St. Paul may have our Lord's words in mind; but it was a proverbial expression....
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...
PROPHECY. — The Apostle valued the gift of prophecy — _i.e.,_ preaching — more highly than the gift of tongues, which stood first in Corinthian estimation. He therefore naturally selects it as coming...
_Prophecy_ in its widest range, and _faith_ at its utmost stretch in those lacking love, both amount to “nothing!” (ἐὰν) εἰδῶ τὰ μυστήρια πάντα κ. τ. λ., “If I know all the mysteries (of revelation) a...
to 1 Corinthians 13:3. § 42. THE WAY TO CHRISTIAN EMINENCE. Carefully and luminously Paul has set forth the manifoldness of the Holy Spirit's gifts that contribute to common life of the Church. _All_...
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...
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...
The Power of Love Being able to speak the languages of men, or even angels, produced nothing but a hollow sound without meaning if love was absent, according to Paul. It should be remembered that ange...
And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all (c) faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. (c) B...
These prove that faith without good works, and especially charity for God and our neighbour, cannot avail to eternal life; faith and charity are both essentially necessary. Hence St. Augustine declare...
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 . Without love, the most eminent gifts confer no real worth on their possessor....
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...
“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and [though I have] all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not charity, I am noth...
(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 myst...
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...
_THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY_ ‘And though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.’ 1 Corinthians 13:2 The spirit of love is the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Is...
2._And if I should have the gift of prophecy. _He brings down to nothing the dignity of even this endowment, (777) which, nevertheless, he had preferred to all others. _To know all mysteries, _might s...
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...
AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY,.... Either of foretelling future events, as Balaam, who foretold many things concerning the Messiah and the people of Israel, and yet had no true love for eithe...
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. Ver. 2. _...
_Though_, &c. The apostle having observed in the last verse of the preceding chapter, (with which this chapter is closely connected,) that he would show them _a more excellent way_, that is, a way mor...
GIFT OF PROPHECY; see note to chap 1 Corinthians 12:28. UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES, AND ALL KNOWLEDGE; have the power of unfolding all the deep counsels of God as contained in his word, and of declarin...
A PSALM OF LOVE. The high worth of love:...
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....
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;...
AND IF. HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, AND KNOW ALL MYSTERIES AND ALL KNOWLEDGE; AND IF. HAVE ALL FAITH, SO AS TO REMOVE MOUNTAINS, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE,. AM NOTHING. 'know all mysteries and all knowledge'...
1-3 The excellent way had in view in the close of the former chapter, is not what is meant by charity in our common use of the word, almsgiving, but love in its fullest meaning; true love to God and...
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 re...
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. [Love is next compared with the gifts...
Epistle of Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch "Though he gives all his goods to feed the poor, though he remove mountains, though he give his body to be burned,"[13] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book...
1 Corinthians 13:2 And G2532 though G1437 have G2192 (G5725) prophecy G4394 and G2532 understand G1492 (G576
'And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.' And this is not only true of tongues, it is tru...
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...
1 Corinthians 13:2. AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY a gift above tongues (chap. 14), for uttering the mind of God by immediate inspiration, but often for the opening of the Scriptures, to which...
The ecstatic gifts (verse 1 Corinthians 13:1) are worthless. Equally so are the teaching gifts (prophecy, knowledge of mysteries, all knowledge). Crasis here in καν=κα εαν. Paul is not condemning thes...
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,...
1 Corinthians 12:1. _Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led._ Although the mem...
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...
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...
INSPIRED PREACHING = prophecy, See note on 1 Corinthians 12:10. ALL KNOWLEDGE. The secrets of the Old Testament. See note on 1 Corinthians 12:8. FAITH. See note on 1 Corinthians 12:9
_And though I have the gift of prophecy … and have not charity, I am nothing._ STRONG LOVE These are the words of a man of high culture, who could prophesy and work miracles, and had attained great...
_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....
THE BIGGEST LESSON If I... know all mysteries and all knowledge... but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2. If I were to ask each of you this morning, “Why do you go to school?” I wonder...
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...
_Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing._ Erasmus thinks that this is a hyperbolic fiction, as though he should say, "Charity by far excels faith...
_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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Corinthians 12:8; 1 Corinthians 12:9; 1 Corinthians 13:1;...
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...
And though I have the gift of prophecy — Of foretelling future events. And understand all the mysteries — Both of God's word and providence. And all knowledge — Of things divine and human, that ever a...
Farther, Suppose. had the spirit of prophecy, and could speak by inspiration of things present, and things to come, and could understand deep and difficult points in God's word and works, what is this...