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1 Corinthians 13 · Grade 5

Faith, Hope, and Love

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Chapter 13 sits between two chapters on spiritual gifts. It is Paul's corrective to a church that ranked believers by their gifts. With a series of conditions, he imagines the highest spiritual achievements: speaking in the languages of men and angels, knowing all mysteries, faith to move mountains, giving away everything. Without love, the speaker is a clanging cymbal, nothing, gaining nothing.

Paul's portrait of love reads like a description of Christ and a mirror held up to Corinth. The Corinthians were envious, boastful, puffed up, and self-seeking, yet love is patient and kind, does not envy or boast, and is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way, is not provoked, and keeps no account of wrongs. It rejoices with the truth and bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things.

Love's permanence sets it above every gift. Prophecies, languages, and knowledge belong to the present age and will cease when the perfect comes. Paul uses two images: a child growing into adulthood and seeing in a mirror, dimly (13:12). Now knowledge is partial, but then believers will know fully, even as they are fully known. Faith, hope, and love remain, and love is the greatest, because love will continue forever.

Show What You Know

  1. Why does chapter 13 sit between two chapters on spiritual gifts?

  2. How does Paul's portrait of love function as a mirror for Corinth?

  3. What two images does Paul use for present partial knowledge?

  4. Why is love the greatest?

Crossword

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Across

  1. When I was a ____
  2. It profits me ____
  3. ____ is patient and is kind

Down

  1. Where there are various ____
  2. And know all mysteries and all ____

Think About It

  1. Try reading the description of love and replacing the word love with Jesus. What does that show you about Christ?

  2. Paul says that without love, great gifts gain nothing. How can a gifted person make sure love stays at the center of how he or she serves?

Memory Verse

“But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:13 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for Your love that never fails. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • How does this chapter describe Christ?
  • How can gifted people keep love at the center?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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