1 Corinthians 13:7

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

How True Love Is Revealed (13:4-8a). This definition of love covers all angles. Because it portrays the essentials of love looking from our point of view, it gives us a totally rounded view of what true love is. It thus covers what God's love to us is like. It covers in depth precisely what Jesus' love was like. It covers what our response to Him should be like. It covers how we should behave towards those we love, and especially to our fellow believers. And finally it covers what 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 13:7

The charitable man beareth all injuries with patience; he believeth all things that are good of his brother, so far is he from being credulous to his prejudice; endureth all things that a good man ought to endure, that is, any evils done to himself. In the same sense Solomon saith, Proverbs 10:12; Love covereth all sins. 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 13:4-7

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 "Love Suffereth Long, and is Kind.". I. We have here brought before us the two sides, the passive and the active sides, of a loving disposition. "Love suffereth long." It is perhaps remarkable that this feature should be presented to us first of all, as if suffering, enduring some trial, were a matter of course. It reads us a lesson as to the kind of world in which we Christians have to live. The true Christian knows, and will know, no limit to his endurance. It is not his ... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:5-7

1 Corinthians 13:5-7 I. Love is not easily provoked. This characteristic follows upon "seeketh not her own," and very naturally self-regard is the great secret of easy provocation. It may be hidden self-regard, lurking in the by-ways of the character; the generous and self-denying man is often easily provoked, but it is just because self-love has been driven, it may be, from the citadel, yet is still in possession of the outworks. We are, in this wreck of our nature, such strange inconsistent... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

DISCOURSE: 1986A DESCRIPTION OF CHARITY1 Corinthians 13:4-7. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.OF all the subjects proposed to us in the Holy Scriptures, there is not one that deserves a deeper... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:7

Love's Labours -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Sermon (No. 1617) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, September 4th, 1881, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Charity beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." 1 Corinthians 13:7 . THE grace of charity, or love, of which so much is most admirably spoken... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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 Spirit. How the Holy Spirit manifests Himself through the life of the believer and those various gifts that a person can possess. Not everyone has all of the gifts, not everyone has all of the ministries, obvious by the rhetorical questions. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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 are the reproach of the christian world. This is indicated by the preseding words: “yet show I unto you a more excellent way.” Some bear hard on our Stephen Langton, abp. of Canterbury, who divided the bible into verses, for separating those words from this chapter. Though he erred in some places,... read more

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