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NASB | 1 Corinthians 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I have the gift of prophecy [and speak a new message from God to the people], and understand all mysteries, and [possess] all knowledge; and if I have all [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love [reaching out to others], I am nothing. |
Bible Question: I need a Bible verse to sum up the story I am writing. Is there any verse in the Bible that says in essense "the gift without the giver's love is empty"? |
Bible Answer: Doctrinally it isn't quite the full story... but love is, indeed, the summum bonum of the Christian life. For your purposes 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 would do. "The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love." --Henry Scougal "True love likes to become familiar with the object of its affection; its heart is set upon that object, it studies it, and can never know it too well or too closely. True love to Christ thinks of Him from morning till night; it is glad to be released from other thoughts that it may follow only its one darling pursuit." --Charles H. Spurgeon "It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true. God loves creatures that have become unlovely and (one would have thought) unlovable. There was nothing whatever in the objects of his love to call it forth; nothing in us could attract or prompt it. Love among persons is awakened by something in the beloved, but the love of God is free, spontaneous, unevoked, uncaused. God loves people because he has chosen to love them... and no reason for his love can be given except his own sovereign good pleasure." --James I. Packer |
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