True Christian Love: Difference between revisions
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Galatians 5:6 | |||
:''The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ga 5:6.</ref> | :''The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ga 5:6.</ref> | ||
1 Corinthians 8:2-3 | |||
:''Knowledge puffs up but Love builds up. | :''Knowledge puffs up but Love builds up. | ||
:''If anyone thinks he has arrived at knowledge, he does not yet know as he ought to know; | :''If anyone thinks he has arrived at knowledge, he does not yet know as he ought to know; | ||
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:''If anyone loves, this one truly knows.<ref>Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1987), 367.</ref> | :''If anyone loves, this one truly knows.<ref>Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1987), 367.</ref> | ||
I Corinthians 13 | |||
:''If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. | :''If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. | ||
:''If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. | :''If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. | ||