1 Corinthians 13:4

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1 Corinthians 13:4

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Summary

1 Corinthians 13:4

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Suffereth

Is kind

1 John 4:11

Envieth

Is not

Philippians 2:1

General references

Matthew 5:44

Luke 22:24

Philippians 2:4

Bible References

Suffereth

with innocence, insight, patience, kindness, the holy Spirit, unaffected love,

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

with perfect modesty and gentleness, showing forbearance to one another patiently, zealous in love

May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes,

As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.

he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition ??God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth;

Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness,

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.

Is kind

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,

piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.

Envieth

you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

(He knew quite well that Jesus had been delivered up out of envy.

till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity ??slanderers,

let us live decorously as in the open light of day ??no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.

For I am afraid I may perhaps come and find you are not what I could wish, while you may find I am not what you could wish; I am afraid of finding quarrels, jealousy, temper, rivalry, slanders, gossiping, arrogance, and disorder ??21 afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill;

is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations,

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that ??and be false to the truth.

What, do you consider this is an idle word of scripture? ??'He yearns jealously for the spirit he set within us.')

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

Is not

Now I have applied what has been said above to myself and Apollos, to teach you ... that you are not to be puffed up with rivalry over one teacher as against another.

And yet you are puffed up! You ought much rather to be mourning the loss of a member! Expel the perpetrator of such a crime!

With regard to food that has been offered to idols. Here, of course, 'we all possess knowledge'! Knowledge puffs up, love builds up.

Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,

So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

General references

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

A quarrel also rose among them as to which of them could be considered the greatest.

and each with an eye to the interests of others as well as to his own.