It is love that crowns manhood.II. The POWER of love. It is —1. The spring of a true character. Supplying the constant and sufficient motive to lead men to live the right life. It is —2. The sign of a true character. As in their search for nightingales, controversial naturalists ...
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always ...
To it all other graces and virtues are subordinated. "Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love" (1Co 13:8-13). In one passage only in the New Testament (3Jo 1:6) agape seems to have a meaning that comes near to the later, ecclesiastical mean...
14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 16 Else when thou...
KJV: Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. WEB: Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages...
Is not puffed up - Ουφυσιουται· Is not inflated with a sense of its own importance; for it knows it has nothing but what it has received; and that it deserves nothing that it has got. Every man, whose heart is full of the love of God, is full of humility; for ...
these graces abide now, during the present life: he that has true faith in Christ, shall die in it; and he that has a good hope through grace, shall have it in his death; and love will outlive death, and be in its height and glory in the other world: for which reason it is ...
22Therefore tongues are for asign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.23Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come inthose who areuninformed or unbelievers,...
罗马书 5:8 — King James Version (KJV 1900) 8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 罗马书 5:8 — New Living Translation (NLT) 8But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still ...
company shall return thither.They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my f...