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Bible Lesson: Scriptures For
Special Occasions: When And Why, We Should Be A People Of Love.
Bible Text:
I Corinthians 13:1-13 NLT (Love
Is the Greatest)
1 If I could speak all the languages
of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a
noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and
if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all
knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but
didn’t love others, I would be nothing.
3 If I gave everything I have to the
poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I
didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is
not jealous or boastful or proud
5 or rude. It does not demand its
own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being
wronged.
6 It does not rejoice about
injustice but rejoices whenever The Truth wins out.
7 Love never gives up, never loses
faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown
languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will
last forever!
9 Now our knowledge is partial and
incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the
whole picture!
10 But when the time of perfection
comes, these partial things will become useless.
11 When I was a child, I spoke and
thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away
childish things.
12 Now we see things imperfectly,
like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see
everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and
incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God
now knows me completely.
13 Three things will last
forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
Love:
Deuteronomy
7:9 NLT
Understand,
therefore, that The Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful
God who keeps His covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes
His unfailing love on those who love Him and obey His commands.
Deuteronomy
10:17-19 KJV
17
For The Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God,
a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh
reward:
18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth
the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
19
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of
Egypt.
Psalm
36:7 KJV
How
excellent is thy loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of
men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Psalm
63:3 KJV
Because
thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Psalm
136:26 KJV
O
give thanks unto The God Of Heaven: for His mercy endureth for ever.
Jeremiah
31:3 KJV
The
Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee
with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn
thee.
Zephaniah
3:17 KJV
The
Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will
rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy
over thee with singing.
Matthew
22:36-40 KJV
36
Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love The Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38
This is the first and great commandment.
39
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself.
40
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
John
3:16 KJV
For
God so loved the world, that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
John
15:13 KJV
Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends.
Romans
5:5-8 KJV
5
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts by The Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for
the ungodly.
7
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a
good man some would even dare to die.
8
But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans
8:35,37-39 KJV
35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword?
37
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that
loved us.
38
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I
Corinthians 2:9 KJV
But
as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for
them that love Him.
Ephesians
3:17-19 KJV
17
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted
and grounded in love,
18
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and
length, and depth, and height;
19
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye
might be filled with all the fullness of God.
I
John 3:1 KJV
Behold,
what manner of love The Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should
be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not,
because it knew Him not.
I
John 4:7-10,16 KJV
7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one
that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
sent His Only Begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
Him.
10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent
His Son to be the propitiation (Sacrifice)
for our sins.
16
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is
love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Prayer:
Psalm
86:5 NLT
O
Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love
for all who ask for your help.
Ephesians
5:1,2 KJV
1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given
Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet
smelling savor.
