The Most Important Word for Christians

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1 Corinthians 13; It’s not only for Weddings) See also Hebrews 5:11-6:3
1 Corinthians 13 is also a very important interpretive key to the rest of the N.T. It
reveals limits to our knowledge and understanding of the Gospel. Even in our “Born From Above” state, the best we can know and understand is “in part”(v12). But even with our partial understanding via the Holy Spirit, Scripture, the body of Christ we can progress in a pleasing way before God. He appreciates our good faith effort in the context of His mercy and forgiveness.
Our progression in our Christ experience goes from doctrines, gifts of the Spirit to
the ultimate goal of love, because even at the center of His being, “God is love”: And the central call for us is to love; remember Matthew 22:37-40: God, others and ourselves. Without our growth in love both as an inner attitude and outer behavior all other things received from God (gifts, faith, hope) in His estimation, “we gain nothing or more literally “it amounts to nothing”’ The NIV in verse 2 states literally “I am nothing!” This chapter aligns with Paul’s teaching in Galatians, about the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25); This is what it means to “Keep in step with the Spirit.”(Galatians 5:25). But, chapter 13 does not state that love as a perfect finality is possible while on earth only in heaven, but grows in it while still on earth.(13:12)