1 Corinthians 13:1
The Way of Love If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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- 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
- 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
- 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
- Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight– the only thing that matters is faith working through love.
- Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
- 1 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
- 1 Cor 13:8 : 8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.
- 1 Cor 14:6-8 : 6 Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching? 7 It is similar for lifeless things that make a sound, like a flute or harp. Unless they make a distinction in the notes, how can what is played on the flute or harp be understood? 8 If, for example, the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?
- 2 Cor 12:4 : 4 was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.
- 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- 1 Cor 12:16 : 16 And if the ear says,“Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.
- 1 Cor 12:29-30 : 29 Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all perform miracles, do they? 30 Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they?
- Rom 14:15 : 15 For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
- Matt 25:45 : 45 Then he will answer them,‘I tell you the truth, just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.’
- 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
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- 1 Cor 13:2-54 verses85%
2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.
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7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.
- 1 Cor 14:1-2323 verses75%
1 Prophecy and Tongues Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
2 For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.
3 But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouragement, and consolation.
4 The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
5 I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened.
6 Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
7 It is similar for lifeless things that make a sound, like a flute or harp. Unless they make a distinction in the notes, how can what is played on the flute or harp be understood?
8 If, for example, the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?
9 It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.
10 There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.
11 If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.
12 It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.
13 So then, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
14 If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.
15 What should I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praises with my spirit, but I will also sing praises with my mind.
16 Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit, how can someone without the gift say“Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
17 For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.
18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,
19 but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
21 It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.
22 So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
23 So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?
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13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- 1 Cor 12:30-312 verses72%
30 Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they?
31 But you should be eager for the greater gifts.And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.
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14 Everything you do should be done in love.
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1 Spiritual Gifts With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.
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1 Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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39 So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.
- 1 Cor 14:26-283 verses68%
26 Church Order What should you do then, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each one has a song, has a lesson, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all these things be done for the strengthening of the church.
27 If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.
28 But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.
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14 And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.
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8 I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.
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1 Final Exhortations Brotherly love must continue.
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13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
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18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
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35 Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”
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11 The Signs of an Apostle I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those“super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
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7 to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.
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10 to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
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11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.
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20 If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.