TRC DB 1 Cor 13 w/ Lena's Journalin' /Word Study Today

Scripture selections are taken from the Rock Church Daily Bread Reading schedule for each month. “Lena’s Journalin’” are Lena’s comments on the specific passages from her Daily Journal.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 -
1If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth F63 but didn't love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody. 3If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; F64 but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.
4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. 6It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages F65 and special knowledge will all disappear. 9Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! 10But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear.
11It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. F66 All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.
13There are three things that will endure—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
FOOTNOTES:F63: Greek in tongues of people and angels. F64: Some manuscripts read and even gave my body to be burned. F65: Or in tongues. F66: Greek see face to face.
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~ Lena’s Journalin’ ~
This morning I am looking through the Greek Lexicon @ www.Studylight.org They’ve got this great tool. You can look up a passage, say “1 Cor 13” and then there is a bar with many choices to scroll through. On the bar is a choice for, “KJV with Strong’s numbers”. That opens up the whole passage with underlined numbers in which you can click on any or all of the words, one by one , and see the literal Greek meanings of these intended words in a pop up type window that will display the root meanings to you.. It’s a fun tool to use, it really opens up your understanding to the word of God and gives you a taste of being able to dig for the treasure that is hidden inside of it. You do realize that the Bible was not written in British English, correct? Well, Praise the Lord that someone from Britain translated it for us and I and also thankful that someone of the era we now live in is also digging in and bringing the words into present day understanding. When translation is done sometimes root meanings are buried, so it is great to have the tools of the Lexicons to help us see better. Like a magnifying glass would.
I want to use these tools to day to “Paraphrase a bit” and show you how the word of God can be opened up to our further understanding using these tools.
There are also other online Bibles and Study tools you can find at various Internet websites such as, www.crosswalk.com & www.biblegateway.com. Have a fun with God’s word.
Example in vs 1-
Although I am well able, well versed in speaking to various people, articulating in a way that they fully understand my words, and I also know very well how to communicate in a godly mannerism, even with declarative words that command the angels of God to move, (such as in declarative and assigning bold prayers),and yet the unconditional unwavering accepting love of God is not who I am in the deepest hidden part of my mind, heart and body actions; in fact this love is what I’ve made a huge part of who I really am, I’ve embraced it as my call in life with great zeal followed by demonstration, I am only merely existing as though I’m putting on some stage act. I’m performing for mere men in public places, but not really living as God on earth, as His seed, as His vessel. I may as well be saying, a la, la la de dad a da, as I speak anything, whether good, bad or otherwise. My words are so loudly portrayed, yet so earthly temporary, even if I really know something! I spend them as fast as money and they last only a short earthly lifetime. My words become hollowly repetitive to the hearers, even the atmospheric hearers who were sent by God to either de-seat or to set on assignment. My words do nothing at all for God or even myself really, if I do not become loving on the inside. Let's look at the words that describe the attributable character of Love.
Suffers long -to be of a long spirit, not to lose heart to persevere patiently and bravely in enduring misfortunes and troubles to be patient in bearing the offenses and injuries of others to be mild and slow in avenging to be long, fit, fit for use, useful
Is kind - virtuous, good, manageable , mild, pleasant (as opp. to harsh, hard sharp, bitter), of things: more pleasant, of people, kind, benevolent , suffering, slow to anger, slow to punish to receive a loan, borrow, to take for one's use, to use, to make use of a thing by the help or agency of any one, by means of any one, fig. applied to God symbolising his might, activity, power, in creating the universe,in upholding and preserving (God is present protecting and aiding one), in punishing, in determining and controlling the destinies of men a gaping opening, a chasm, a gulf
Does NOT envy- to burn with zeal to be heated or to boil with envy, hatred, anger in a good sense, to be zealous in the pursuit of good to desire earnestly, pursue to desire one earnestly, to strive after, busy one's self about him to exert one's self for one (that he may not be torn from me) to be the object of the zeal of others, to be zealously sought after to envy , contentious, jealous
Does Not boast- to boast one's self a self display, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling one's self excessively to pierce beyond on the other side
Is Not puffed up/prideful-to make natural, to cause a thing to pass into nature to inflate, blow up, to cause to swell up to puff up, make proud to be puffed up, to bear one's self loftily, be proud nature the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature as opposed to what is monstrous, abnormal, perverse as opposed what has been produced by the art of man: the natural branches, i.e. branches by the operation of nature birth, physical origin a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature the sum of innate properties and powers by which one person differs from others, distinctive native peculiarities, natural characteristics: the natural strength, ferocity, and intractability of beasts to beget, bring forth, produce to be born, to spring up, to grow to shoot forth, spring up
Does Not misbehave-to act unbecomingly, deformed indecent, unseemly
Does Not self seek -to seek in order to find to seek a thing to seek [in order to find out] by thinking, meditating, reasoning, to enquire into to seek after, seek for, aim at, strive after to seek i.e. require, demand to crave, demand something from someone
Is Not easily provoked -to make sharp, sharpen to stimulate, spur on, urge to irritate, provoke, arouse to anger to scorn, despise provoke, make angry to exasperate, to burn with anger sharp swift, quick a point extremity, climax, acme, highest degree the present time
Does Not think badly- as in of a bad nature not such as it ought to be of a mode of thinking, feeling, acting base, wrong, wicked troublesome, injurious, pernicious, destructive, baneful
Does Not get happy about iniquity and its justice -injustice, of a judge unrighteousness of heart and life a deed violating law and justice, act of unrighteousness descriptive of one who violates or has violated justice unjust unrighteous, sinful of one who deals fraudulently with others, deceitful custom, usage right, just a suit at law a judicial hearing, judicial decision, esp. sentence of condemnation execution of a sentence, punishment to suffer punishment the goddess Justice, avenging justice
Does get happy about what is true- objectively what is true in any matter under consideration truly, in truth, according to truth of a truth, in reality, in fact, certainly what is true in things appertaining to God and the duties of man, moral and religious truth in the greatest latitude the true notions of God which are open to human reason without his supernatural intervention the truth as taught in the Christian religion, respecting God and the execution of his purposes through Christ, and respecting the duties of man, opposing alike to the superstitions of the Gentiles and the inventions of the Jews, and the corrupt opinions and precepts of false teachers even among Christians subjectively truth as a personal excellence that candour of mind which is free from affection, pretence, simulation, falsehood, deceit true loving the truth, speaking the truth, truthful to be hidden, to be hidden from one, secretly, unawares, without knowing
Bears all things -deck, thatch, to cover to protect or keep by covering, to preserve to cover over with silence to keep secret to hide, conceal of the errors and faults of others by covering to keep off something which threatens, to bear up against, hold out against, and so endure, bear, forbear a roof: of a house
Hopes all things -to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in of the thing believed to credit, have confidence in a moral or religious reference used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith 1bc) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith to hope in a religious sense, to wait for salvation with joy and full confidence hopefully to trust in expectation of evil, fear expectation of good, hope in the Christian sense joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation on hope, in hope, having hope the author of hope, or he who is its foundation the thing hoped for
Believes all things -to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity to be entrusted with a thing conviction of the truth of anything, belief; in the NT of a conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervour born of faith and joined with it relating to God the conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things, the provider and bestower of eternal salvation through Christ relating to Christ a strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God the religious beliefs of Christians belief with the predominate idea of trust (or confidence) whether in God or in Christ, springing from faith in the same fidelity, faithfulness the character of one who can be relied on
Endures all things - to remain to tarry behind to remain i.e. abide, not recede or flee to preserve: under misfortunes and trials to hold fast to one's faith in Christ to endure, bear bravely and calmly: ill treatments by, underto remain, abide in reference to place to sojourn, tarry not to depart 1a to continue to be present to be held, kept, continually in reference to time to continue to be, not to perish, to last, endure of persons, to survive, live in reference to state or condition to remain as one, not to become another or different to wait for, await one
Love never fails- to fall out of, to fall down from, to fall off metaph. to fall from a thing, to lose it to perish, to fall to fall from a place from which one cannot keep fall from a position to fall powerless, to fall to the ground, be without effect of the divine promise of salvation

Daily Repetitive Verses:

John 3:17
You know these things – now do them! That is the path of blessing.