Love 1 Co'13

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Love (1 Co.13)

• Why does Paul leave his discussion of spiritual
  gifts (12), discuss love (13), then return to
  spiritual gifts (14)?
• Love is not a digression, but a necessary part of
  his purpose
• Some used gifts to show off (1031)
• Yielding self to the good of others is not mere
  forbearance or self-control, but love (v.13)

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Without love

• everything else is nothing (1-3)
• Greeks worshipped intellect
• Romans worshipped power
• Supernatural gifts and heroic acts mean nothing
  w/o love
• KJV charity
• The Traits Of Love

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1. Suffers long

• Long-tempered slow to anger, slow to take
  offense, to inflict punishment
• Of God 1 Pt.320 2 Pt.39, 15
• It is patience of injuries w/o paying back
  (though he has power). Ja.119
• Its easy to be longsuffering when everyone is
  kind to us 2 Tim.310
• 1 K.211-2

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2. Is Kind

• Longsuffering is passiveKindness is active
  (bestows benefits) Its one thing to endure
  offenses, another to show kindness
• Kindness of God Ro.25 1122
• 1 Tim. 112-17
• Kindness follows Gods example
• Pro.3120, 26
• Ep.432

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3. Does not envy

• Love does not envy anothers blessings
  (Ro.129 1313)
• 1 Co.1231 141, 39
• 1 Co.31
• 2 Co.1220

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4. Does not parade itself

• Ostentatious boasting is the chief idea
  braggart love does not boast
• Origen...esp. of intellectual pride
• Cicero, of rhetorical display
• Corinth
• Mt.6
• 1 Co.1214-17, 21-26

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5. Is Not Puffed Up

• To puff oneself out like a pair of bellows
• Logically follows does not parade itself
• 1 Co.46, 18-19 52 81
• He who subjects himself to his neighbor in love
  can never be humiliated (Basil)

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6. Does Not Behave Rudely

• Unmannerly
• Love has no bad manners does not act
  dishonorably it is tactful it does nothing that
  would cause a blush
• Philemon
• A needed lesson 1 Co.11, 12, 14

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7. Does Not Seek Its Own

• Repeats 1024, 33
• Corinthians sought their self- interests
• Many believe that finding oneself is the
  highest good (self-gain / esteem)

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8. Is Not Provoked

• KJV added easily
• We can control our temper
• Nu.121-3
• Not only does not fly into a rage, but does not
  yield to provocation

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9. Thinks No Evil

• Accounting term keeps no record of wrongs
  bears no resentment
• Phm.18
• Pro.1911
• Instead of entering an offense in our account
  book, we pass the sponge over it
• 1 Co.61-8

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10. Does Not Rejoice In Iniquity

• Ro.132. Do not sympathize w. evil
• Cursing
• Gossip
• Fall of enemy
• Lk.1941

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11. Rejoices In Truth

• Truth makes love rejoice
• Love is not neutral
• Rejoicing in anothers success may be more
  difficult than bearing wrongs. Ph.112-17
• Ph.118
• Love embraces unpleasant truth, covets correction

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12. Bears All Things

• From roof
• Love covers, protects, forbears, 1 Pt.48
• 1 Co.912, bear, endure

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13. Believes All Things

• Learned, not innate
• Not gullible, but gives the benefit of the doubt
  
• Love prefers generosity to unjust suspicion (1
  Tim.64)
• Love believes the best
• Love tries to put good construction on
  everything, even when it needs great faith to do
  so

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14. Hopes All Things

• When sight corrects faith and proves the worst,
  love hopes for the best
• Even hardened offenders may change
• When evils threaten to smother us, hope believes
  that God will give the victory to good
• Love does not despair

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15. Endures All Things

• Faith, Hope, and . . . Endurance
• Loving hope endures to the end w. unshaken
  confidence in God, esp. in personal wrongs
• Mt.1821-22, 23-35
• Gn.2920
• When hope is disappointed, love waits for the
  best