Learning About Love 1 Cor 13. Learning About Love 1 Cor 13

Learning About Love 1 Cor 13Learning About Love 1 Cor 13


Learning About LoveLearning About Love1 Cor 131 Cor 13


Love’s Necessity• One can quickly see the importance the Bible

places on love• Re: spouses Eph 5:25 Titus 2:4• Re: children Titus 2:4• Re: enemies Mt 5:43-44• Re: brethren Jn 13:34-35 15:12-17

1 Jn 2:9-11 3:10-15 4:20 – 5:1

Love’s Necessity• One can quickly see the importance the Bible

places on love• Re: spouses Eph 5:25 Titus 2:4• Re: children Titus 2:4• Re: enemies Mt 5:43-44• Re: brethren Jn 13:34-35 15:12-17

1 Jn 2:9-11 3:10-15 4:20 – 5:1


Love’s Necessity• With such an “importance,” Biblical love

virtually cries out for a definition• It must be properly understood & practiced

Love’s Necessity• With such an “importance,” Biblical love

virtually cries out for a definition• It must be properly understood & practiced


Love Depicted & Defined• Love must be the motivation behind all

actions vv. 1-3• For the sake of the gospel• For the sake of other people• Actions without love are only empty…“hollow”• Man may not know love is absent, but God will

certainly know

Love Depicted & Defined• Love must be the motivation behind all

actions vv. 1-3• For the sake of the gospel• For the sake of other people• Actions without love are only empty…“hollow”• Man may not know love is absent, but God will

certainly know


Love Depicted & Defined• Technically, God does not “define” love

• There is no abstract or theoretical definition to learn or memorize

• The N.T. “describes” love instead of “defining” it• “Love” in this text = agape• All 15 “properties” are in verb form vv. 4-8a

Love Depicted & Defined• Technically, God does not “define” love

• There is no abstract or theoretical definition to learn or memorize

• The N.T. “describes” love instead of “defining” it• “Love” in this text = agape• All 15 “properties” are in verb form vv. 4-8a


Love Depicted & Defined• Love…

• …is patient• Long suffering; to be of a long spirit• Slow in bearing the offenses of others• cp. Mt 18:26, 29 2 Pet 3:9


• …is patient• Long suffering; to be of a long spirit• Slow in bearing the offenses of others• cp. Mt 18:26, 29 2 Pet 3:9



• …is kind• Mild, not harsh or bitter• Only occurrence of this word in N.T.• Root of this word found in Lk 5:39

Old wine is “better” (mellow…not sharp or biting in taste)


• …is kind• Mild, not harsh or bitter• Only occurrence of this word in N.T.• Root of this word found in Lk 5:39

Old wine is “better” (mellow…not sharp or biting in taste)



• …is not jealous• To be “heated” or “boiling over” with envy• Jealousy wants what another has…Envy doesn’t

want the other person to have it either• One who seethes over another’s success• cp. Acts 7:9 17:2-6


• …is not jealous• To be “heated” or “boiling over” with envy• Jealousy wants what another has…Envy doesn’t

want the other person to have it either• One who seethes over another’s success• cp. Acts 7:9 17:2-6



• …does not brag• To boast one’s self• Only occurrence of this word in N.T.• Root word in Greek = “wind bag”• cp. Lk 18:9-14


• …does not brag• To boast one’s self• Only occurrence of this word in N.T.• Root word in Greek = “wind bag”• cp. Lk 18:9-14



• …is not arrogant• To inflate, blow up, cause to swell; to puff up• To bear one’s self loftily• cp. Rom 12:3, 16


• …is not arrogant• To inflate, blow up, cause to swell; to puff up• To bear one’s self loftily• cp. Rom 12:3, 16


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