1 Corinthians 13:4

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1 Corinthians 13:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

through my personal purity, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness; through the Holy Spirit, my genuine love,

But the product of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, lovingly bearing with one another,

then you will be perfectly empowered by His glorious might for every sort of joyous endurance and forbearance,

So as God's own chosen people, consecrated and dearly loved, you must once for all clothe yourselves with tenderheartedness, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience; you must keep on

With gentleness he must correct his opponents, for God might grant them repentance that would lead them to a full knowledge of the truth,

But you, on your part, have faithfully followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,

preach the message, stay at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people with perfect patience as a teacher.

The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, free from doubts and insincerity.

Above everything else keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers up a multitude of sins.

Is kind

But you must practice loving your enemies, doing good to them, and lending to them, despairing of nothing; so that your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.

So as God's own chosen people, consecrated and dearly loved, you must once for all clothe yourselves with tenderheartedness, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience; you must keep on

Finally, you must all live in harmony, be sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

piety with brotherly affection, brotherly affection with universal love.

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Dearly beloved, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another too.

Envieth

for you are still unspiritual. For when there are still jealousy and wrangling among you, are you not still unspiritual and living by a human standard?

For he knew that they had turned Him over to the court out of envy.

because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will;

Let us live becomingly for people who are in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, nor in sexual immorality and licentiousness, nor in quarreling and jealousy.

I repeat it, I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, rivalries, slanders, gossiping, haughty pride, and disorders,

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I now warn you, as I have done before, that those who practice such things shall not be heirs of the kingdom of God.

Some, indeed, are actually preaching Christ because they are moved by jealousy and partisanship, but others are doing so from the motive of good will;

he is a conceited ignoramus with a morbid appetite for discussions and controversies which lead to envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions,

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

But if you cherish bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop being proud of it and stop being false to the standard of truth.

Or, do you think that the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He jealously yearns for the Spirit that He causes to dwell in your hearts"?

So once for all get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all sorts of slander,

Is not

Now, brothers, for your sakes I have applied all this to Apollos and myself, that from us as illustrations you might learn the lesson, "Never go beyond what is written," so that you might stop boasting in favor of one teacher against another.

And yet, you are proud of it, instead of being sorry for it, and seeing to it that the man who has done this be removed from your membership!

Now about the foods that have been sacrificed to idols: We know that every one of us has some knowledge of the matter. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Stop letting anyone, in gratuitous humility and worship of angels, defraud you as an umpire, for such a one is taking his stand on the mere visions he has seen, and is groundlessly conceited over his sensuous mind.

So, if there is any appeal in our union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if we have any common share in the Spirit, if you have any tenderheartedness and sympathy,

General references

But I tell you, practice loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors,

There arose also among them a contention as to which one of them should rank as greatest.

Stop looking after your own interests only but practice looking out for the interests of others too.