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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

The attributes of love. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

The nature and operation of love. The negative view having been presented, the apostle considers the mature and operations of this love, And one characteristic of it, he puts in the foreground of its excellences. It can suffer. A virtue that cannot suffer is hardly a virtue at all. Certainly it is not a virtue that can lay the least claim to divineness. Wedded love, parental love, philanthropic and patriotic love, have to undergo a discipline of pain and sorrow even to symbolize the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Some characteristics of love. The apostle gives a very beautiful description of some of the qualities of love. True love is— I. PATIENT AND UNCOMPLAINING . It: 1. "Suffereth long," under provocation and injury. 2. "Is not easily provoked." Is not irritable—not allied to anger. 3. "Beareth all things." Is willing to bear burdens that others may be free. Rather hides than advertises injuries received. Does not revenge. 4. "Endureth all things." Neglect and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The immortality of love. "Charity never faileth," etc. Amongst the many things which Paul predicates in this chapter concerning "charity," or love, is its permanence. I. It will "never fail" as an ELEMENT OF MORAL POWER . Love is the strongest force in the soul. 1. It is the strongest sustaining power. Our present state is one of trial and sorrow. Burdens press on all, in all grades of society. Godly love is the best sustaining power under all. All Divine promises are... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The grace of charity. When we speak of charity ( ἀγάπη ) it is in the sense attached to the word in the New Testament. We do not speak of promiscuous and impulsive almsgiving, in which there is often but the veriest morsel of charity, and which, in our condition of society, is almost an unmitigated evil, tending as it does to the maintenance of an indigent and pauperized class. We do not speak of that kind of natural affection ( ἔρος ) which binds men together with the ties of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:7

Beareth all things (see on 1 Corinthians 9:12 ). Endures wrongs and evils, and covers them with a beautiful reticence. Thus love "covereth all sins" ( Proverbs 10:12 ; 1 Peter 4:8 ). Believeth all things. Takes the best and kindest views of all men and all circumstances, as long as it is possible to do so. It is the opposite to the common spirit, which drags everything in deteriorem partem, paints it in the darkest colours, and makes the worst of it. Love is entirely alien from the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:7

Love and the conduct of life. We are born into, and we live in the midst of, a system, vast and incomprehensible. Man is related to a thousand circumstances, and his moral life depends upon the principles which govern these relationships. It is by a sublime and spiritual intuition, itself an evidence of a Divine commission and apostolate, that St. Paul discerns the truth that love, when it takes possession of the Christian's nature, relates him anew and aright to "all things," i.e. to... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:8

Never faileth. The word "faileth" ( ἐκπίπτει ) has two technical meanings between which it is not easy to decide. 1. It means, technically, " is never hissed off the stage like a bad actor," i.e. it has its part to play even on the stage of eternity. This is its meaning in classic Greek. 2. it means "falls away" like the petals of a withered flower (as in James 1:11 ; comp. Isaiah 28:4 ). Here, perhaps, the meaning is not technical, but general, as in Romans 9:6 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:8

"Love never faileth." Prophecies, tongues, knowledge,—these were all matters of immense importance in the Christian community at Corinth, whose members prided themselves upon their discernment, their intellectuality, their gifts. And they were not unimportant in the view of that one of the apostles whose mind was both more highly endowed by nature, and more sedulously and effectively disciplined by study, than was the case with his brethren. But let these excellent and beautiful things be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

The eternal permanence of love. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:7

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:7

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:8

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:8

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

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