Paul has shown that to exercise even the most powerful and impressive spiritual gifts without love makes those gifts meaningless and the one using them nothing.

Love is the primary characteristic that we see in the Father's gift of His Son to the world, and in Christ's sacrifice of Himself for His Church.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

14 дек. 2002 г. · “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.”.

They thought by so doing, that they deserved to behold the face of God, enjoy his favour, and be partakers of the happiness of the world to come.

22 сент. 2020 г. · Paul tells us that even if we give away everything we have, but we don't love others, it profits us nothing.

26 июл. 2020 г. · What we're going to see as we study 1 Corinthians 13, is that love is supernatural. It is the fruit of saving faith in Jesus Christ. God alone ...

20 сент. 2022 г. · In 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, the apostle Paul emphasizes the supreme importance of love over all other spiritual gifts and actions. He is teaching ...

In this particular verse, Paul emphasizes that even the most self-sacrificial acts, if done without love, ultimately have no value.

Each thing described in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 is a good thing. Tongues are good, prophecy and knowledge and faith are good, sacrifice is good. But love is so ...