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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

The necessity of love 13:1-3In these first three verses Paul showed that love is superior to the spiritual gifts he listed in chapter 12."It is hard to escape the implication that what is involved here are two opposing views as to what it means to be ’spiritual.’ For the Corinthians it meant ’tongues, wisdom, knowledge’ (and pride), but without a commensurate concern for truly Christian behavior. For Paul it meant first of all to be full of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, which therefore meant to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 13:2

Prophecy was a higher gift than glossolalia (speaking in tongues) but was still inferior to love (cf. 1 Corinthians 14:1-5). Earlier Paul wrote of the importance of understanding life from God’s perspective and grasping the truths previously not revealed but now made known by His apostles (1 Corinthians 2:6-13). Nevertheless the truth without love is like food without drink. Possession of spiritual gifts is not the sign of the Spirit, but loving behavior is.Even faith great enough to move... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 1 Corinthians 13:2

13:2 know (b-7) Oida . see Note, ch. 8.1. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

(e) Spiritual Gifts(ii) The most excellent Gift of CharityIn this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe the most fragrant odours. Passing from the previous chapters with their tale of faction and scandal and shame to this passage with its description of Christian love is like passing from the enchanted ground of the ’Pilgrim’s Progress’ to the land of Beulah within sight of the Celestial Gate.The Revised Version reads ’love’ for charity throughout the chapter The Gk. word is... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Corinthians 13:2

(2) 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 into the same condemnation, if unaccompanied by love. All the secrets of God’s providence and complete knowledge (see 1 Corinthians 12:8), even such a transcendent faith as Christ had spoken of as capable of moving mountains (Matthew 17:20), may belong to a man, and without love he is nothing. We must... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

1 Corinthians 13:0 The paean of love chanted at Ephesus under Nero for the poor saints of Corinth, has not perished with Corinth. Annihilated for ever, the magnificence of Nero's Corinth lies buried today beneath silent rubbish-mounds and green vineyards on the terraces between the mass of the Acrocorinthus and the shore of the gulf; nothing but ruins, ghastly remnants, destruction. The words of the paean, however, have outlasted the marble and the bronzes of the Empire, because they had an... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

1Chapter 18CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTSThis Epistle is well fitted to disabuse our minds of the idea that the primitive Church was in all respects superior to the Church of our own day. We turn page after page, and find little but contention, jealousies, errors, immorality, fantastic ideas, immodesty, irreverence, profanity. At this point in the Epistle we do come upon a state of things which differentiates the primitive Church from our own; but here too the superior advantages of those early... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

3. The Need and Superiority of Love. CHAPTER 13 1. The Preeminence of Love. (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 .) 2. Love described in its characteristics. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 .) 3. Love never faileth; its Permanence. (1 Corinthians 13:8-13 .) This chapter is a most blessed exaltation of love. The word “charity” is an unfortunate mistranslation. The Greek word for love used in the New Testament was never used by the Greek heathen classical writers. In its meaning it was unknown among the Gentiles.... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:2

13:2 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) By "faith" he means the gift of doing miracles, and not that faith which justifies, which cannot be void of charity as the other may. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Verses 1 Timothy 3:0 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; verse 2 with what I have; and verse 3 with what I do. Though spoken in most sublime language, "tongues of men or of angels," my words are merely as a brass sounding instrument or a clanging cymbal, if love is not present. The warmth and reality of a proper personal element is lacking: this... read more