1 Corinthians 13:13 Cross References - WPNT

¹³ For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.

²⁹ Jesus answered him: “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD your (pl) God, the LORD is one; ³⁰ and you (sg) shall love the LORD your (sg) God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. ³¹ And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’. There is no other commandment greater than these.”

¹³ Those on the rock ledge are the ones who, whenever they hear, receive the word with joy; yet these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of testing fall away. ¹⁴ Now that which fell into the thorns: these are the ones who heard, yet as they go they are choked by cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. ¹⁵ But that on the good ground: these are the ones who having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold on to it and produce fruit with perseverance.”

²⁷ In answer he said: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and, your neighbor as yourself.”

³² But I have prayed for you (sg) so that your faith not fail completely; so you, when you have recovered, strengthen your brothers.”

⁴ and the perseverance, proven character; and the proven character, hope; ⁵ and the hope does not humiliate, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

²⁴ Yes, we were saved in the hope, but a hope that is seen is not hope—why would anyone hope for what he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance.

¹³ Now may the God of the hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in that hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁴ If the work that anyone built endures, he will receive a reward.

¹ Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

³ But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.

¹ If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud, ⁵ is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious; ⁶ it does not take pleasure in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷ it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all; ⁸ love never fails. Now as for prophecies, they will be set aside; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded;

¹ Pursue love, and desire the spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

¹⁴ Do all you do in love.

¹⁰ Because we must all be exposed before Christ’s Judgment Seat, that each one may receive his due for the things he did while in the body, whether good or bad.

¹⁵ and He died for all so that those who now live should no longer live for themselves but for the One who died for all and was raised again.

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

¹³ Now you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not use that freedom as an opening for the flesh, but slave for one another through love. ¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, namely: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. ¹⁵ But if you bite and tear at each other, beware lest you be consumed by one another! ¹⁶ I say then: walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ Because the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh; they oppose each other; it follows that you may not do the things that you wish. ¹⁸ However, if you are led by the Spirit you are not under a law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

⁹ This is what I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more in real knowledge and full discernment,

⁵ because of the hope that is being reserved for you in the heavens, of which you have already heard through the Word of the Truth

²⁷ to whom God resolved to make known who is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the nations, namely Christ in you, the hope of glory;

¹⁴ And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

⁸ but we being of day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet of hope of salvation.

⁵ Now the goal of that command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith;

⁷ Because God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of self-control.

¹¹ You see, we really do want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so as to fulfill the hope;

¹⁹ which hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both certain and secure, actually entering the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

³⁵ So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great recompense.

³⁹ But we are not of those who back away into ruin, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

²¹ who through Him are believing into God, who raised Him out from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are into God.

¹⁰ He who keeps loving his brother is staying in the Light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I have written to you because you are strong, and the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

²⁴ So you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you; if what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Father and in the Son.

³ —everyone who has this hope upon him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

⁹ Whoever has been begotten by God does not commit sin, because His seed remains in him; actually, he is not able to sin, because he has been begotten by God.

⁷ Dear ones, we must love one another, because the love is of God and everyone who loves has been begotten by God and knows God. ⁸ He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, because God is love. ⁹ God’s love was made real within us by this: God sent His only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really. ¹² No one has ever looked at God. If we love one another, God remains in us and His love is being perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we remain in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. ¹⁴ Yes, we have observed and do testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. ¹⁶ Yes, we have come to know and believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and he who abides in the love abides in God, and God in him. ¹⁷ The love is perfected with us for this: that we may have confidence in the Day of judgment, since just as He is so are we in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love; rather perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment; so he who fears has not been perfected in love.

¹ Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten by God; also, whoever loves the Begetter should love the one begotten by Him as well. ² In this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments. ³ For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; His commandments are not burdensome, ⁴ in that whatever has been begotten by God overcomes the world; this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith. ⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

⁴ It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we received commandment from the Father. ⁵ And now I put a request to you, lady (not as though writing a new commandment to you, but one that we have from the beginning): that we love one another. ⁶ And this is the love, that we live according to His commandments—this is the commandment, just as you heard from the beginning, that you should live according to it.