Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 Corinthians 13:2, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
- 1 John 4:20
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath…
- Matthew 17:20
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mou…
- Matthew 21:21
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, bu…
- 1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
- 1 Corinthians 12:8
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
- 1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
- 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.
- Galatians 5:16
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
- Ephesians 3:4
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
- Colossians 1:26
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
More to meet God in 1 Corinthians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.