1 Corinthians 13:1
CONTENTS This is a short, but interesting Chapter on Love. The Apostle speaks in the highest Commendation of it, and declares that it will abide forever.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS This is a short, but interesting Chapter on Love. The Apostle speaks in the highest Commendation of it, and declares that it will abide forever.... [ Continue Reading ]
(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. (2) And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have no... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, (5) Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; (6) Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; (7) Beareth all things, believet... [ Continue Reading ]
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 prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS Who can read this sweet Chapter, in the relation of Charity, and in the many lovely qualities, with which the Apostle hath so beautifully set it forth, without having the mind at once directed to Jesus, who is all that is here said, and abundantly more, even Charity in the fall, complete... [ Continue Reading ]