1 Corinthians 13:1
Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.
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Romans 14:15If your brother is continually pained because of your food, you are not conducting yourself any longer in love. Do not, by what you eat, persist in destroying a man for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 12:8For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? teachers? workers of miracles?
1 Corinthians 13:8Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.
2 Corinthians 12:4who was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable words which no human being is permitted to utter.
Galatians 5:22But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long- suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 13:1
In this chapter the apostle goes on to show more particularly what that more excellent way was of which he had just before been speaking. He recommends it, I. By showing the necessity and importance of it, ver. 1-3 . II. By giving a description of its properties and fruits, ver. 4-7 . III. By showing how much it excels the best of gifts and other graces, by its continuance, when they shall be no longer in being, or of any use, ver. 8, to the end . Read the whole commentary →