1 Corinthians 13:13

Wells of Living Water Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

The More Excellent Way 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 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 story of love. The love of God to man. is inseparable from the story of salvation. To be sure, the Bible displays the wrath of God toward them who reject His love, and walk in unrighteousness. However, the love of God in grace, found a way to save even the believing sinner from wrath. The love... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:13

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, in religion, love is supreme. That lesson would, if it stood alone, have a commanding importance. But it does not stand alone, though it stands out in undisputed supremacy. The great transfiguration of the Christian character which passes before our eyes is the third in the series of scenes that have... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Spiritual Gifts For The Well-being of Christ and His Body (12:1-14:33). Paul now begins his reply to their question about spiritual gifts ('concerning spiritual things') and immediately gives an initial warning that such gifts can easily be perverted by the subtlety of evil spiritual forces. It is in the nature of spiritual gifts that they will be imitated and distorted by such evil forces with ill intent, for they are ever out to deceive, and will seek to mimic spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

Love Will Indeed Outlive All Spiritual Gifts, and Is Even Greater Than Faith and Hope (13:8b-13). For then we are brought back to how such love compares with the subject in hand. Prophecies, tongues and 'spiritual knowledge' are all temporary, for they will fade away when the reality comes. Christian love on the other hand is permanent. It will continually abide and is the greatest bestowal known to man. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:13

'But now abides faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.' There are in fact three things that, unlike spiritual gifts, are permanent and enduring, continually abiding now and which will abide through the resurrection and beyond, faith, hope and love. Unlike prophecy and knowledge these have become essential parts of what we are ourselves. And unlike them they are abiding, so that we have them now and we will have them in eternity. Faith because it is the channel of our... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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 valueless in the absence of love ( 1 Corinthians 13:1-Leviticus :); ( b) description of love’ s manifold excellences ( 1 Corinthians 13:4-Judges :); ( c) love is imperishable ( 1 Corinthians 13:8-1 Chronicles :). It is linked to chs. 12 and 14 by the mention in 1 Corinthians 13:1 f., 1... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:13

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; hope, by which we wait for the receiving of them; and love, by which we delight ourselves in God, and show obedience to the will of God. But of all these, love is the greatest, either in respect of its use and profitableness unto men, or in respect of its duration and abiding (which last the apostle... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

CRITICAL NOTES1. 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 so much personal, as the ideal of a Christian life personified. 4. Connect closely with, begin reading at, 1 Corinthians 12:31. Also, go on from 1 Corinthians 13:13 to 1 Corinthians 14:1. Thus, then, the whole scheme of thought is: “Desire earnestly the greater gifts. Yet I show you something still... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:13

1 Corinthians 13:13 I. Love is of God's nature faith and hope are only of God's creation and appointment. God loves, but God neither believes nor hopes. II. Love being of God's nature, and faith and hope being of God's creation and endowment merely, it follows that charity is the senior of faith and hope. III. Believing and hoping give no direct affinity to the Divine nature, but love secures real oneness with God. IV. Love fills a nobler sphere than either faith or hope. Faith embraces... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Corinthians 13:13

DISCOURSE: 1988FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY, COMPARED1 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, to shew the superiority of Christian love or charity to all the gifts that were so erroneously estimated, and so ostentatiously displayed, in the Church of Corinth. In the course of his argument, the Apostle enumerates the principal offices of charity, and marks with singular accuracy and minuteness its... read more

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