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Article Title: Corinthians 13; from No to Yes in 7 Words
Author: James Burgess
Category: religion
Word Count: 420
Keywords: christian, scripture
Author's Email Address: [email protected]
Article Source: http://www.7wordsassociates.org/psychology_spotlight.php
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Corinthians 13 is a popular teaching, here it is explained in 7 Words
1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I
am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and
all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,
and have not love, I am nothing.
3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body
to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not
itself, is not puffed up,
5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily
provoked, thinketh no evil;
6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things.
8. Love 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.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be
done away.
11. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought
as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know
in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13. And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these
is love.
Can we find a way to see this as the development of 7 stages from No to Yes?
No: The whole first part, 1 to 3, is saying `I reject life without Love. For
all its gifts of knowledge, good deeds and fine speech, life without Love is
nothing to me'.
Hello: In 4 to 7 there is a conceptual explanation of what love is: kindness,
freedom from envy and so on
Thanks: By 8, the qualities of Love are being extolled as having a greater
value than other things
Goodbye: 9,10,11 refer to letting go of past things
Please: In l2, we envision being face to face with God
Sorry:
and be truly seen in all our imperfections
Yes: 13, surrendering to Love.
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