“ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. ”
For we know in part - Compare the note on 1 Corinthians 12:27 . This expression means “only in part;” that is, “imperfectly.” Our knowledge here is imperfect and obscure. It may, therefore, all...
(4) For we know in (h) part, and we prophesy in part. (4) The reason: because we are now in the state that we have need to learn daily, and therefore we have need of those helps, that is, of the gif...
1 Corinthians 13. All Gifts and Sacrifices are Worthless without Love, which is Supreme and Incomparable. The chapter falls into three divisions: ( a) superlative gifts and costliest surrenders ar...
know . App-132. in part . Greek. ek (App-104.) merous.
He now proves that prophecy, and other gifts of that nature, are done away, (798) because they are conferred upon us to help our infirmity. Now our imperfection will one day have an end. He...
DISCOURSE: 1987 THE SAINTS’ VIEWS IN HEAVEN 1 Corinthians 13:9-12 . We know in part, and we prophecy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done awa...
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. For we know in part - We have here but little knowledge even of earthly, and much less of heavenly, things. He that knows most knows little in comparison...
For we know in part, &c.— The wisest of men have here but short, narrow, imperfect conceptions even of the things round about them; and much more of the deep things of God: and even the prophes...
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. In part - partially and imperfectly. Compare a similar contrast to the "perfect man," Ephesians 4:11-13 . That which is in part - fragmentar...
(e) Spiritual Gifts (ii) The most excellent Gift of Charity In this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe the most fragrant odours. Passing from the previous Chapter s with the...
We know in part. — Knowledge and preaching are incomplete; therefore, when this dispensation ends, and the complete dispensation is brought in, these imperfect gifts shall cease. Gifts are but the...
Chapter 19 NO GIFT LIKE LOVE THIS is one of the passages of Scripture which an expositor scruples to touch. Some of the bloom and delicacy of surface passes from the flower in the very handling w...
the One Essential for All 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 With what wonder his amanuensis must have looked up, as the Apostle broke into this exquisite sonnet on love! His radiant spirit had caught a gli...
The apostle dealt with love, its values (verses 1Co 13:1-3), its virtues (verses 1Co 13:4-7), and its victory (verses 1Co 13:8-13). The values of love are discovered in the fact that, apart from it,...
Charity 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. For we know in part, and we prop...
For we know in part ,.... Not that the Scriptures, the rule and measure of knowledge, and from whence spiritual knowledge is derived, are imperfect; so that there is need of unwritten traditions, an...
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. Ver. 9. We prophesy in part ] We therefore know but imperfectly, because we are taught but imperfectly. My greatest knowledge, said Chytraeus, is to...
Love never faileth It accompanies us to, prepares us for, and adorns us in eternity; nay, it is the very felicity of heaven. In these respects it materially differs from, and has an apparent advant...
Verses 1 Timothy 3 of this chapter show the necessity of love; verses 4 to 7 the characteristics of love; and verses 8 to 13 its permanence. And in the first section, verse I deals with what I spe...
Charity Commended. A. D. 57. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, the...
For we know in part; it was truly said, as to things human, that the greatest part of those things that we know, is the least part of those things which we are ignorant of. A great measure of Divin...
Love Must Lie At The Root Of All We Do Especially Our Ministry To The Church (13:1-13). Paul now deals with what must lie behind the use of spiritual gifts, if they are to be truly spiritual. And...
CRITICAL NOTES 1. These need be very few ; the language of the chapter is of the simplest, the thought inexhaustibly full. 2. Note, Paul, not John, writes this chapter on Love . 3. The “I” i...
1 Corinthians 13:9 I. "We know in part." This limitation is imposed upon us briefly. Of all that is, of all that ever we, with our present faculties, feel must be, we can know but a small fraction...
1 Corinthians 13:1 . Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. If there be no love to God, and no love to m...
The apostle having spoken of the adornings of the church, which is the body of Christ, proceeds now to treat of her internal glory; and that glory is charity, for without this, all other endowments a...
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Charity Each of the apostles had a predominant feature of charac...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 13:1-46 The supremely excellent way of Christian love. This chapter has been in all ages the object of the special admiration of the Church. Would that it had rec...
The eternal duration of love:
1 Corinthians 13:12 ; 1 Corinthians 2:9 ; 1 Corinthians 8:2 ; 1 John 3:2 ; 1 Peter 1:10-12 ; Colossians 2:2 ; Colossians 2:3 ; Ephesians 3:18 ; Ephesians 3:19 ; Ephesians 3:8 ; Job 11:7 ;...
The More Excellent Way 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The love of God. The great love of God verse is John 3:16 . Another great love verse is Romans 5:8 . The whole Bible is, ho...
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part — The wisest of men have here but short, narrow, imperfect conceptions, even of the things round about them, and much more of the deep things of God. An...