Charity is the older English word for the love God commands.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Charity is the word the older English Bibles use for agape. Paul says charity suffers long and is kind, does not envy, and never fails. The greatest of faith, hope, and charity is charity. This is not a coin dropped in a box. It is the love Jesus commanded, that we love one another as He loved us. A gift without charity is nothing. The agape feast takes its name from the same word. Charity is the love. The meal is not the definition.
- Newer Bibles say love. The older word is charity. The Greek is agape.
- Paul’s chapter defines it by what it does and does not do.
- Do not shrink it to alms. Alms can be charity. Charity is larger.
The greatest of these is charity.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind.
Charity never faileth.
- Charity is the older English for agape.
- It is the greatest of faith, hope, and charity.
- It suffers long and is kind.
- Without it, gifts are nothing.
- It is the love Jesus commanded.
- It is not only a gift to the poor.
- The Word – Charity, love, agape.
- The Chapter – 1 Corinthians 13.
- The Rank – The greatest of the three.
- The Measure – As I have loved you.
- The Limit – Not only alms.
- The Meal – Named from the same word.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4 – “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:8 – “Love never ends.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 – “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 – “If I give away all I have… but have not love, I gain nothing.”
- John 13:34 – “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you.”
- 1 John 4:8 – “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
- Colossians 3:14 – “And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
- 1 Peter 4:8 – “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”
- Galatians 5:22 – “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace.”
- Jude 1:12 – “These are hidden reefs at your love feasts.”
The greatest of these is charity.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind.
Charity never faileth.
Charity is that love. The newer Bibles say love. Do not shrink the word to a coin.
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