quotes let all that you do be done in love 1 corinthians

Agape love gives and loves because it wants to it does not demand or expect repayment from the love given. It is love that loves even when it is rejected. It is love so great that it can be given to the unlovable or unappealing. It is a self-giving love that gives without demanding or expecting repayment. It is a love that loves without changing. It might be described as the highest love of which man, without God’s help, is capable of. It is the love of deep friendship and partnership.

It speaks of a brotherly friendship and affection. It refers to family love, the kind of love there is between a parent and child, or between family members in general. It described, as we might guess from the word itself, erotic love.

It is important to understand the difference between the words, and why the apostle Paul chose the Greek word agape here. The ancient Greeks had four different words we could translate love. Have not love: Paul uses the ancient Greek word agape. “Possession of the charismata is not the sign of the Spirit Christian love is.” (Fee)ĭ. Paul is emphasizing the focus and goal of the gifts: love, not the gifts for their own sake. A church should never be forced to choose between love and gifts of the Holy Spirit. It isn’t an issue of love versus the gifts. A man with that kind of faith can move great mountains, but he will set them down right in the path of somebody else – or right on somebody else – if he doesn’t have love. What an amazing thing it would be to have faith that could work the impossible! Yet, even with that kind of faith we are nothing without love. Paul, quoting the idea of Jesus, refers to faith which could remove mountains (Matthew 17:20). The Corinthian Christians missed the motive and the goal of the gifts, making them their own goal. Prophecy, knowledge, and faith to do miracles are likewise irrelevant apart from love.

Yet, it is interesting to consider angels may have capacities for communication that we do not have, and will not have until believers are glorified in their resurrection bodies.Ĭ. How this is we cannot tell: some of the schoolmen say, it is by way of impression: that way God, indeed, communicates his mind sometimes to his people, making secret impressions of his will upon their minds and understandings.” Poole was not correct in his suggestion that angels can’t speak – in many places in the Bible, angelic beings speak, both in heaven, and on earth. Poole has a fascinating comment, suggesting that the tongues of… angels describes how God may speak to us in a non-verbal way: “Angels have no tongues, nor make any articulate audible sounds, by which they understand one another but yet there is certainly a society or intercourse among angels, which could not be upheld without some way amongst them to communicate their minds and wills to each other. Apparently, there are angelic languages men can speak by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The reference to tongues of… angels shows that though the genuine gift of tongues is a legitimate language, it may not be a “living” human language, or may not be a human language at all. In Paul’s day, many Jews believed angels had their own language, and by the Spirit, one could speak it. There is no other way to understand the reference to tongues of… angels. But the way tongues is used here shows it can, and usually does, refer to a supernatural language by which a believer communicates to God. This has led some to say the gift of tongues is simply the ability to communicate the gospel in other languages, or it is the capability of learning languages quickly. Tongues of men and of angels: The ancient Greek word translated tongues has the simple idea of “languages” in some places (Acts 2:11 and Revelation 5:9). “People of little religion are always noisy he who has not the love of God and man filling his heart is like an empty wagon coming violently down a hill: it makes a great noise, because there is nothing in it.” (Josiah Gregory, cited in Clarke)ī. Without love, a person may speak with the gift of tongues, but it is as meaningless as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. Paul reminds them even the gift of tongues is meaningless without love. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels: The Corinthians were enamored with spiritual gifts, particularly the gift of tongues. 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, but have not love, I am nothing.Ī.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. (1-2) Love is superior to spiritual gifts in and of themselves. Alan Redpath said one could get a spiritual suntan from the warmth of this chapter. If you tear it apart too much, you lose the beauty. Campbell Morgan wrote that examining this chapter is like dissecting a flower to understand it.

Quotes let all that you do be done in love 1 corinthians