“More than 1 person has hailed 1 Corinthians 13 as the finest chapter in the Bible. No words get to the heart of loving people like these verses. And no verses get to the heart of the chapter like verses 4 through 8.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
Several years ago someone challenged me to replace the word love in this passage with my name. I did and became a liar. Those words became false. And for years, that was my problem with this paragraph it set a standard I could not meet. No one can meet it. No one, that is, except Christ. Does this passage not describe the measureless love of God? Let’s insert Christ’s name in place of the word love and see if it rings true.
Jesus is patient and kind; Jesus does not envy or boast; he is not arrogant or rude. Jesus does not insist on its own way; he is not irritable or resentful; he does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Jesus bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Jesus never fails.
Rather than let this scripture remind us of a truth we cannot produce, let it remind us of a love we cannot resist – God’s love.”
Max Lucado / A Love Worth Giving
1 Corinthians 13
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