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Teaching
Notes I CORINTHIANS 13
Hugh
Wood, Atlanta, Georgia
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The
first Quarantine in the USA since 1918 continues. It is Day 30 or something. Today is Easter. Sunday April 12, 2020. This is the first time in my life when we
cannot go to a church for Easter.
Perhaps it will have to be virtual this year. [The virtual did not work for IT technical reasons].
April
8 - 16, 2020 is Passover. I pray that
the Angel of Death that is out there "passover" me and my house. Amen.
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"The
grass withers and the flower [fades], but the word of [the Lord] endures
forever.” Isaiah 40:8."
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This
Book, the First Letter to the Church at Corinth, was almost certainly written
by Paul. It is addressed to the church
in Corinth, in Greece. It is in every
early accepted copy of the Bible. It is
likely written by the end of AD 53 or the spring of 54.
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Peachtree [Presbyterian] Church when we could gather together at a prior Easter
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Chapter 13. Love
The Premier Teaching of Christianity. An
undying expression
of
Jesus’ doctrine of Heavenly Love. More potent for the build-
ing
of the Church than any, or all, of the various manifestations
of
God‘s Power. Love, the Church’s most effective weapon. Love,
without
which all the various Gifts of the Spirit are of no avail.
Love,
the Essence of God's Nature. Love, the Perfection of Human
Character.
Love, the most Powerful Ultimate Force in the Universe.
Even if I bestow all my goods to Feed the
Poor, even if I give
my
body to be burned, if I Have Not Love, it Proļ¬ts me Nothing,
Ver 3. What a Thought-Provoking passage! The Gift of Speaking
like an
Angel, of Prophesying, of having All Knowledge, of Faith
that Moves
Mountains, of Charity to the last dollar, even
Martyrdom, all
of no use unless we have the Spirit of Christian
LOVE. What a
call to Self-examination.
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From
The Bible Project (c)
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1
Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV)
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If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am
only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy
and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can
move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess
to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not
have love, I gain nothing.
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not
proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily
angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but
rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres.
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Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there
are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes,
what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I
thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the
ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a
mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know
fully, even as I am fully known.
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And now these three remain:
faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is
love.
Footnotes:
1
Corinthians 13:1 Or languages
1
Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames
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New
International Version (NIV)
Holy
Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by
Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Some
content adapted from Halley, Henry H., Bible Handbook, Grayson Publishing,
Minneapolis, MN. © 1927 - 1959, 1964
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Hugh
C. Wood, Atlanta, Georgia
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