5th Graceful Counsel

5) 1 Corinthians 13

LOVE (CHARITY) & Humility

 

 

Suffers long and is Kind

 

Does Not Parade itself and is Not Puffed up

 

Does Not Behave Rudely, Does Not Seek its own

 

 

Is not Provoked, Thinks No Evil

 

 

Does Not Rejoice in Iniquity, But Rejoices in the Truth

 

Bears All Things, Believes All Things,

 

Hopes all Things, Endures All Things

 

 

LOVE

 

Never Fails

 

 

Prophecies will Fail (Conditional)

 

Tongues cease

 

Knowledge vanish away (Better knowledge comes)

 

 

These Abide:

 

 

FAITH

 

HOPE

 

LOVE

 

 

LOVE IS THE GREATEST OF ALL (Love covers a multitude of sins) (The blood of Jesus covers all sins)

 

Humility:

Colossians 3:12New King James Version (NKJV)

Character of the New Man

¹² Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

John 14:15New King James Version (NKJV)

Jesus Promises Another Helper

¹⁵ “If you love Me, keep^[a] My commandments.

Footnotes:

1. John 14:15 NU-Text reads you will keep.

1 John 1:7 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁷ But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.


1 Peter 4:8 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁸ And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”^[a]

1 Corinthians 13 New King James Version (NKJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13&version=NKJV

The Greatest Gift

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² 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, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,^[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
⁸ Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Footnotes:

1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 NU-Text reads so I may boast.

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TRUE HUMILITY IS TO LISTEN TO GOD AND  DO HIS WILL