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1 Corinthians 13 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: The Greatest Is Love

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolLove Is Greatest

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenLove

LOVE → picture 3KIND → picture 1HOPE → picture 4FAITH → picture 2

Grade 1Love Never Fails

Gifts need love. → picture 4Love is patient. → picture 3Love is kind. → picture 1Love never fails. → picture 5Love is the greatest. → picture 2

Order:

1. Love is patient and is kind2. Love doesn’t envy3. Love never fails4. The greatest of these is love

Grade 2Love Is Patient

  1. What are gifts like without love? Noise (circle)
  2. What is love? Patient and kind (circle)
  3. What does love not do? Brag (circle)
  4. What will never end? Love (circle)
  5. What is the greatest? Love (circle)
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Grade 3The More Excellent Way

  1. What is a person like who speaks without love? A clanging cymbal
  2. What does love not keep a record of? Wrongs
  3. What does love rejoice with? The truth
  4. Which three things remain? Faith, hope, and love
1: Love is patient and is kind2: Love doesn’t envy3: Love never fails4: The greatest of these is love
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Grade 4Love Never Fails

  1. What did the Corinthians value? Impressive gifts, especially speaking in other languages
  2. What does love keep no record of? Wrongs
  3. Why will gifts like prophecy and knowledge pass away? They are partial
  4. How will believers one day see? Face to face

Word bank: 1. languages; 2. love; 3. knowledge; 4. child; 5. Faith

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Faith, Hope, and Love

  1. Why does chapter 13 sit between two chapters on spiritual gifts? It corrects a church that ranked believers by their gifts
  2. How does Paul's portrait of love function as a mirror for Corinth? It contrasts love with their envy, boasting, pride, and selfishness
  3. What two images does Paul use for present partial knowledge? A child growing into adulthood and seeing in a mirror, dimly
  4. Why is love the greatest? Love will continue forever
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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