The Love God Calls Us To
Walking Out 1 Corinthians 13
16 Chapters • Preface • Dedication • Appendix
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“But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.”— 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NASB)
A walk through 1 Corinthians 13 — the love chapter — taken not as a wedding text but as the apostle Paul's diagnostic for a fractured first-century church. Fifteen attributes of love, addressed across fourteen chapters, with the Greek named where it helps, the Corinthian failures named where they sharpen the modern reader's seeing, and the love itself set forth as the eternal nature of God Himself, into which every believer is being called.
Before You Begin
Verses 1-3 — The Stakes
Opening
Verse 4 — The First Five
Love is patient, kind, not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant
Verse 5 — The Four That Follow
Love does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered
Verse 6 — The Hinge
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth
Verse 7 — The Positive Four
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things
Verses 8-13 — The Eternal Weight