[Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 Agape love always protects. There are a few obvious ways in which this is true, such as when a husband protects his wife or a mother protects her child. But what about our love for…
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Tell them the truth!
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. – 1 Corinthians 13:6 Loving someone doesn’t mean standing by and allowing a sinful pattern in their life to go unchecked. Especially someone that claims to be a Christian. Earlier in his letter to the church at Corinth, Paul…
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Short fuse, long list
My study of the “love chapter” is really revealing things to me about the way I show love to people. Allowing God’s Word to soak in like this helps me as I try to replace the way I have been doing things with the way I should be doing them.…
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It’s not about me
[Love] is not rude, it is not self-seeking – 1 Corinthians 13:5 Being rude is so much more than just not using your manners or budging to the front of the line. The Greek word used here is more about a way of life. A character trait that describes a…
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Don’t envy… don’t boast
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. – 1 Corinthians 13:4 Anytime we wish that we had things the way someone else does we will get ourself into trouble. Envy will change our entire focus and it will become the driving force behind all…