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1 Corinthians 13:1-3 For the Love of God - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: February 20, 2011

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 13:1)

If I do not love people, it doesn't matter what I know or what I do, I am just religious noise.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 13:2)

What matters most is that we love. Anyone can love.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 13:3)

Love is the perfection of human character.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Matt 15:18 NLT

But the words you speak come from the heart-that's what defiles you.

Luke 6:45 NLT

A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.

Matt 22:36-40 NKJV

36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

Matt 7:12 NKJV

Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

1 John 4:20-21 NLT

20 If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? 21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters.

1 John 4:19 NKJV

We love Him because He first loved us.

Ps 136:1 NKJV

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

Ps 136:1 KJV

O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Ps 136:1 NLT

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.

Ps 136:1 NASU

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

Ps 136:1 ASV

Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his lovingkindness (endureth) for ever.

Ps 136:1 NIV

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.

Ps 136:1 AMP

O GIVE thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever.

Ps 136:1-9 NLT

1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good!
His faithful love endures forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods.
His faithful love endures forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords.
His faithful love endures forever.
4 Give thanks to him who alone does mighty miracles.
His faithful love endures forever.
5 Give thanks to him who made the heavens so skillfully.
His faithful love endures forever.
6 Give thanks to him who placed the earth among the waters.
His faithful love endures forever.
7 Give thanks to him who made the heavenly lights-
His faithful love endures forever.
8 the sun to rule the day,
His faithful love endures forever.
9 and the moon and stars to rule the night.
His faithful love endures forever.

Gen 22:2 NKJV

Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

1 John 4:19 NKJV

We love Him because He first loved us.

Deut 6:4-9 NKJV

4 "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Lev 19:34 NKJV

The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Lev 19:18 NKJV

You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Ex 21:5-6 NKJV

5 But if the servant plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,' 6 then his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.

1 Cor 8:1 NLT

Now regarding your question about food that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that "we all have knowledge" about this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church.

Heb 13:5b partial NKJV

"I will never leave you nor forsake you."

Matt 28:20b partial NLT

And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

John 3:16 NKJV

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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