“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude…” 1 Corinthians 13 is a piece of poetry written by an early Christian leader named Paul. Paul had founded ...

And, God informs us that all of our activities - no matter how impressive or sacrificial - when performed apart from genuine love are empty of spiritual value (1 Corinthians 13:1-3). The challenge ...

To the Christian man, love is specifically described by 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. “Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself ...

Love never fails. (13:4–8a, NIV) Chapter 12 uses the image of the body ... that prevented the Corinthians from resolving their differences. Paul composed 1 Corinthians carefully in five blocks of ...

While this is not the exuberant rhetorical surplus we find in 1 Corinthians 13, love is still Paul's guiding principle. The church is still uncomfortable with human bodies. It does little to promote ...