5 Great Truths – Week Three

WEEK 3 | 1 CORINTHIANS 13 – PART 2 

THE IMPACT OF LOVE 

CONTEXT 

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4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 

1.   Let Love Impact   (vv. 5-8a) 

“It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes,  

always perseveres. Love never fails.” 

9.   Keeps no record of wrong: logizomai – Does not memorize mistakes 

10.  Does not delight in evil: chairō – Does not celebrate evil   

11.   Rejoices with truth: sygchairō – Cheers when right triumphs     

12.  Always protects: stegō – Puts on a roof to guard 

13.  Always trusts: pisteuō – Believes 

14.  Always hopes: elpizō – Keeps looking forward 

15.  Always perseveres: hypomenō – Maintains the right course of action 

16.  Love never fails: piptō –  

2.   Let Life Impact   (vv. 8b-11)  

“But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.” 

“Spiritual gifts are not just temporary. They are also partial and incomplete.”  ANDREW WILSON, 1 CORINTHIANS FOR YOU 

3.   Let Eternity Impact   (v. 12) 

“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” 

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.”  DEUTERONOMY 29:29 

FINAL THOUGHT  (v. 13) 

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 

THE 16 ACTION DESCRIPTIONS OF LOVE  

1.   Patient: makrothymeō – Delays giving up 

2.   Kind: chrēsteuomai – Puts goodness in action  

3.   Does not envy: zēloō – Does not resent others’ success 

4.   Does not boast: perpereuomai – Does not self-promote 

5.   Is not proud: physio – Does not enlarge self 

6.   Does not dishonor: aschēmoneō – Does not behave disgracefully 

7.   Is not self-seeking: zēteō – Does not strive for advantage  

8.   Is not easily angered: paroxynō – Is not quickly provoked 

9.   Keeps no record of wrong: logizomai – Does not memorize mistakes 

10.  Does not delight in evil: chairō – Does not celebrate evil   

11.  Rejoices with truth: sygchairō – Cheers when right triumphs     

12.  Always protects: stegō – Puts on a roof to guard 

13.  Always trusts: pisteuō – Believes 

14.  Always hopes: elpizō – Keeps looking forward 

15.  Always perseveres: hypomenō – Maintains the right course of action 

16.  Love never fails: piptō –