What does 1 Corinthians 13:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."
1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 pi,stij … tau/ta A few early witnesses (î46 Clement Augustine) transpose so as to read in a much more commonplace sequence: ta. tri,a tau/ta( pi,stij( evlpi,j( avga,ph....
Verse 1 Corinthians 13:13. _AND NOW_ [IN THIS PRESENT LIFE] _ABIDETH FAITH, HOPE,_ _CHARITY_] These three supply the place of that _direct vision_ which no human _embodied_ spirit can have; these _abi...
AND NOW ABIDETH - “Remains” (μένει menei). The word means properly to remain, continue, abide; and is applied to persons remaining in a place, in a state or condition, in contradistinction from remov...
3. THE NEED AND SUPERIORITY OF LOVE. CHAPTER 13 __ 1. The Preeminence of Love. (1 Corinthians 13:1 .) 2. Love described in its characteristics. (1 Corinthians 13:4 .) 3. Love never faileth; its P...
1 CORINTHIANS 13. ALL GIFTS AND SACRIFICES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT LOVE, WHICH IS SUPREME AND INCOMPARABLE. The chapter falls into three divisions: (_a)_ superlative gifts and costliest surrenders are v...
THE HYMN OF LOVE (1 Corinthians 13:1-13) _ 13 I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I have not love, I am become no better than echoing brass or a clanging cymbal. I may have the...
ABIDETH. Greek. _meno._ See p. 1511....
1 Corinthians 12:31 Ch. 1 Corinthians 13:13. The Excellencies of Love _and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way_ Literally, AND FURTHERMORE I SHEW YOU AN EMINENTLY EXCELLENT WAY, i.e. the way of...
1 Corinthians 12:31 to 1 Corinthians 13:13. THE EXCELLENCIES OF LOVE ΚΑῚ ἜΤΙ ΚΑΘ' ὙΠΕΡΒΟΛῊΝ ὉΔῸΝ ὙΜΙ͂Ν ΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ. AND MOREOVER I SHEW YOU A WAY OF SUPERLATIVE EXCELLENCE. This, St Paul would have us un...
_THE PERMANENCE OF LOVE 1 CORINTHIANS 13:11-13:_ The miraculous spiritual gifts were not signs of maturity in Christ. Those gifts were only a means by which that maturity was pursued. The miraculous s...
ΝΥΝΊ (G3570) теперь; логическое, а не _temp._ ΜΈΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G331) оставаться, ΜΕΊΖΩΝ _сотр. от_ ΜΈΓΑΣ (G3187) большой, великий. _Сотр._ используется здесь в _знач._ superl., "вели...
DISCOURSE: 1988 FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY, COMPARED 1 Corinthians 13:13. _And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity_. THE scope of the whole chapter is, t...
AND NOW ABIDETH FAITH, &C.— _"There are, then, only these three things which last,_ in opposition to the spiritual gifts before spoken of, which were to be of short continuance in the church. _Faith,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Giftedness is Temporary, Love is Eternal (1 Corinthians 13:8-13) 8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowl...
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. AND NOW, [ nuni (G3570)] not the same Greek as "now," 1 Corinthians 13:12. Translate 'But now,' As 1 Corinth...
11 The time came when the apostle admonished and taught in order that he should present every man _ mature _ in Christ (Col_1:28). Epaphras struggled in prayers that they should stand mature and compl...
_(e) Spiritual Gifts (ii) The most excellent Gift of Charity_ In this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe the most fragrant odours. Passing from the previous Chapter s with their t...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 13 LOVE 13:1-13 1. THE ABSENCE OF LOVE 13:1-3 V1 Suppose that I speak in the languages of people and *angels. If I have no love, I am only...
AND NOW ABIDETH... — Better, _Thus there abide_... The “now” is not here temporal, but logical. It is not “now” (_i.e.,_ this present life) contrasted with the future, but it is the conclusion of the...
CHAPTER 19 NO GIFT LIKE LOVE THIS is one of the passages of Scripture which an expositor scruples to touch. Some of the bloom and delicacy of surface passes from the flower in the very handling whic...
§ 43. THE QUALITIES OF CHRISTIAN LOVE. The previous vv. have justified the καθʼ ὑπερβολὴν of 1 Corinthians 12:31. The loftiest human faculties of man are seen to be frustrate without love; by its aid...
THE ONE ESSENTIAL FOR ALL 1 Corinthians 13:1 With what wonder his amanuensis must have looked up, as the Apostle broke into this exquisite sonnet on love! His radiant spirit had caught a glimpse of t...
The apostle dealt with love, its values (verses 1Co 13:1-3), its virtues (verses 1Co 13:4-7), and its victory (verses 1Co 13:8-13). The values of love are discovered in the fact that, apart from it, a...
The Permanence of Love There is a strong parallel between 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 and Ephesians 4:7-15. Thus, it seems the "perfect" is the "unity of the faith." The parts of verse 9 were used to confir...
(7) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity. (7) The conclusion: as if the apostle should say, "Such therefore will be our condition then: but now we...
II. THE WAY PAR EXCELLENCE. CHAP. 13. This chapter has been called a hymn. In tone indeed it is truly lyrical, especially in the first verses. Charity is poetically personified. In this respect the pa...
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we proph...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
_THE SUPREMACY OF LOVE_ ‘And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.’ 1 Corinthians 13:13 The message to which we listen in this chapter is this: that,...
13._But now remaineth faith, hope, love. _This is a conclusion from what goes before — that love is more excellent than other gifts; but in place of the enumeration of gifts that he had previously mad...
Nevertheless there was something more excellent than all gifts. They were the manifestations of the power of God and of the mysteries of His wisdom; love, that of His nature itself. They might speak w...
AND NOW ABIDETH FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY, THESE THREE,.... Which are the principal graces of the Spirit of God: faith is to be understood, not of a faith of miracles, for that does not abide; nor of an hi...
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these _is_ charity. Ver. 13. _The greatest of these_] Because longest lasting. Gifts that suppose imperfection in us, as faith a...
1 Cor. 13:13. "And now abideth faith, hope, charity; these three, but the greatest of these is charity." The apostle in this place is not comparing these together as three distinct graces, but gifts o...
_And now_ In the present world; _abideth_ In the hearts of holy persons, and influencing their lives, even all their tempers, words, and works; _faith, hope, love, these three_ The principal and radic...
ABIDETH; according to some, will outlive all miraculous gifts; according to others, will abide for ever: faith in the sense of confidence in God and Christ; and hope, as the joyous looking forward to...
The eternal duration of love:...
Verses 1 Timothy 3 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;...
BUT NOW ABIDETH FAITH, HOPE, LOVE, THESE THREE; AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE. 'But now abideth' -'to remain, last.' (Willis p. 469) 'NOW' -Paul isn't saying that the gifts had ceased "now" (1...
8-13 Charity is much to be preferred to the gifts on which the Corinthians prided themselves. From its longer continuance. It is a grace, lasting as eternity. The present state is a state of childhoo...
Take us according to our state in this life, we have, and shall have, the exercise of three graces: _faith, _ to evidence unto us those things which we do not see, either by the eye of sense or reason...
But now [in this present state] _abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love_. [If we give the phrase "but now" its other sense, as though the apostle said "But to sum th...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II ich we investigate in the Scriptures (which are throughout spiritual), we are able by the grace of God to explain some of them, while we must leave others in the han...
1 Corinthians 13:13 And G1161 now G3570 abide G3306 (G5719) faith G4102 hope G1680 love G26 these G5023 three G5140 but G1161 greatest G3187 these G5130 love G26 abides - 1 Corinthians 3:14; 1 Peter...
LOVE MUST LIE AT THE ROOT OF ALL WE DO ESPECIALLY OUR MINISTRY TO THE CHURCH (13:1-13). Paul now deals with what must lie behind the use of spiritual gifts, if they are to be truly spiritual. And in...
1 Corinthians 13:13. AND NOW ABIDETH FAITH, LOVE, HOPE, THESE THREE; BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE (_Gr._ ‘greater than these') is love. Most modern interpreters take “abideth” here to mean ‘are of equal...
ABIDETH (μενε). Singular, agreeing in number with πιστις (faith), first in list.THE GREATEST OF THESE (μειζων τουτων). Predicative adjective and so no article. The form of μειζων is comparative, b...
CHARITY That is, love; and so in (1 Corinthians 13:2); (1 Corinthians 13:3); (1 Corinthians 13:4); (1 Corinthians 13:8); (1 Corinthians 13:13)....
1 Corinthians 13:13 I. There are three Christian graces as distinguished from all imperfect and transitory gifts which shall never pass away, but abide for ever which, in the perfect state, shall con...
1 Corinthians 13:1. _Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal._ If there be no love to God, and no love to man,...
CONTENTS: Love, the supreme gift of the Spirit, and its governing power over other gifts. CHARACTERS: Paul. CONCLUSION: Love alone can give value to any service rendered in Christ's name, and it is...
The apostle having spoken of the adornings of the church, which is the body of Christ, proceeds now to treat of her internal glory; and that glory is charity, for without this, all other endowments ar...
MEANWHILE THESE THREE REMAIN. These three are eternal. They, along with the church, will never terminate, but will extend on into eternity. THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE. It is the greatest because it...
_Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal._ CHARITY Each of the apostles had a predominant feature of character...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE. The relationship of these three Christian qualities is a frequent theme in Paul’s letters. See Romans 5:1; Galatians 5:5; Ephesians 4:2...
CHAPTER 13 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He points out that of all gifts and graces, charity is the first, and that without charity no gift or virtue is of any use. II. He enumerates (ver. 4) the sixt...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1. THESE NEED BE VERY FEW; the language of the chapter is of the simplest, the thought inexhaustibly full. 2. Note, Paul, not John, writes this chapter on LOVE. 3. The “I” is not s...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1 _The supremely excellent way of Christian love. _This chapter has been in all ages the object of the special admiration of the Church. Would that it had received in all...
Let's turn to the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians. The thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians actually begins with chapter 12. Paul was talking in chapter 12 about the various gifts of the Holy Spiri...
1 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Corinthians 13:8; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Corinthians 16:14; 1 Corinthians 3:14; 1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 8:3; 1 John 2:10; 1 Joh
And now [ν υ ν ι δ ε]. Rev., but; better than and, bringing out the contrast with the transient gifts. Now is logical and not temporal. Thus, as it is. Abideth. Not merely in this life. The essential...
THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY 1 Corinthians 13:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The love of God. The great love of God verse is John 3:16. Another great love verse is Romans 5:8. The whole Bible is, however, one s...
Faith, hope, love — Are the sum of perfection on earth; love alone is the sum of perfection in heaven....
The design of the apostle in these words is, 1. To inform the Corinthians, that the sanctifying graces of faith, hope, and charity, are far to be preferred before all the fore -mentioned extraordinar...