Category: Pneumatology
Love never gives up
Love never gives up (στέγω/stegō, 1 Cor 13:7). If we take stegō to mean bear, stand, or endure, we would follow the NLT. This would…
Love rejoices over truth not injustice
Love doesn’t rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out (1 Cor 13:5). It has no taste for the bitter, hateful, vengeful, or…
Love doesn’t tally up wrongs
Love keeps no record of being wronged (1 Cor 13:5). This expression might include the idea of failing even to take notice of being wronged….
Love isn’t irritable
Love isn’t irritable (παροξύνω/paroxunō, 1 Cor 13:5). Another way of putting it is that love doesn’t fly off the handle. Notice that this doesn’t say…
Love doesn’t demand its own way
Love doesn’t demand its own way; it isn’t self-seeking and doesn’t demand self-fulfillment (1 Cor 13:5). Thiselton notes that love can even give up its…
Love isn’t rude
Love isn’t rude (ἀρχεμονέω/archēmoneō, 1 Cor 13:5), it won’t behave disgracefully, dishonorably, or indecently toward another. The Septuagint uses the same Greek term for shaming…
Love isn’t proud
Love isn’t… proud (φυσιόω/physioō, 1 Cor 13:4). It won’t maintain an exaggerated self-perception. This term uses the metaphor of inflation to warn against taking on…
Love isn’t boastful
Love isn’t… boastful (περπερεύομαι/perpereuomai, 1 Cor 13:4). It doesn’t brag, doesn’t boast of status, isn’t a braggart or blowhard. A Scottish Bible commentator named Barclay…
Love is kind
A note to my readers: I apologize that this first published as an incomplete post. I have the whole series scheduled and queued up even…
Love is patient
Love is patient, or long-suffering (1 Cor 13:4, μακροθυμέω/makrothumeō, G3114). The Septuagint used this term to translate the expression “slow to anger” (Prov 19:11; Job…