1 Corinthians 13
Why Love
- “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.” ~ Mark 12:29-31
- "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." ~ 1 John 4:7
- "This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." ~ John 4:9-12
- "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." ~ 1 Peter 4:8
Love is
4 Love suffers long and is kind;
Love is not
Love is
Love Doesn't
love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity,
Love Does
but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love lasts
8 Love never fails.
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Lesson
Please read the following passages and answer the questions.
Mark 12:29-31 - Who are you to Love?
1 John 4:7 - Why are you to Love?
John 4:9-12 - How are you to Love?
I Corinthians 13:4-8 - How do you live love?
Make a list of all of the behaviors of what Love is, what it is not, what it does, and what it does not do from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.
Love is
Love is not
Love is
Love Doesn't
Love Does
Love Lasts
Each Day, pick a behavior from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 you are instructed to do or not do?
- Find a person or two you don't like much to show it to. What happened?
- Find a verse in the Bible that helps you understand more about this behavior.
- What can help you do it better next time?
Love covers; "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." ~ 1 Peter 4:8
Paul