Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
1 Corinthians 13:1
The Greatest of All Things
SUMMARY OF I CORINTHIANS 13: Christian Love Better Than Miraculous
Gifts. The Nature of Love and Its Action. All the Miraculous Gifts
Shall Pass Away, but Love Endureth. Forever. All Human Knowledge
Imperfect and Transient. But Faith, Hope, and Love Eternal. Of the
Three, Love Is the Greatest.
Meyer says of this chapter:
``This praise of love, almost a psalm on love it might be
called, is as rich in its contents drawn from deep experience
as in rhetorical truth, fullness and power, grace and
simplicity.'
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. In
1 Corinthians 12:8-10 Paul has spoken of spiritual gifts, one of which was
to speak in tongues. "A more excellent way" (1 Corinthians 12:31) is now to
be shown. Hence, various spiritual gifts are taken up and shown to be
useless and vain without love.
And have not charity. "Love", in the Revised Version. If he spoke
not only with the tongues of men, but even those of angels, it would
be, without love,
[as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. An empty sound. The
latter was a brazen basin, which was beaten. The sounds of these
instruments would not be musical.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 13:1
1 Corinthians 16:14
Ephesians 4:2
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