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NASB | 1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 13:1 ¶ If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love [for others growing out of God's love for me], then I have become only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal [just an annoying distraction]. |
Bible Question:
I gave a Sunday School lesson recently where I pretended I was successfully blessed with worldly knowledge where I wrote a couple books and gave 15,000 dollars to the poor however I showed in my skit where I was proud of my achievements I had a person hitting pan lids together to represent my sounds as tinkling cymbals being hit together. Then at the end of the skit I read 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. It says in those verses that we are nothing if we talk good, give money to the poor and have knowledge if we do not have God's love. Does the passage refer to christians only or is it okay to refer that to nonChristians also. hopefully I am not being confusing I just want to make sure that nonChristians could apply 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 to them as well as Christians. thanks for your comments |
Bible Answer: God loves all creation. Paul is writing to Christians. What he is saying is that all these actions must come out of your love, which it will if you truly love God. Christ says in John 14: 1)Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. 2)In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3)And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4)And whither I go, ye know the way. 5)Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; how know we the way? 6)Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7)If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. I hope that loving non Christians can love God enough to turn to Christ. Only God can decide if non Christians can be saved. I am a Christian because I believe that Christ is the way and I want to stand before God with Christ beside me. |
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