Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Waters - in contrast with the "coals of fire," which can be ordinarily quenched with water (Song of Solomon 8:6; 1 Kings 18:33-38). Satan's waterflood of persecutions (Acts 8:1) cannot quench the Church's love (Hebrews 10:34). Our many provocations have not quenched His love (Romans 8:33-39). if ... give all the substance ... contemned-nothing short of Jesus Christ Himself, not even heaven without Him, can satisfy the saint (Philippians 3:8). Satan offers the world, as to Jesus Christ, so to the saint, in vain (1 John 2:15-17; 1 John 5:4). Nothing But our love, in turn, can satisfy Him (1 Corinthians 13:1-3).