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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Love is Not Just an Idea

"Love is not an idea for Paul (Apostle), not even a "motivating factor" for behavior.  It is behavior.  To love is to act; anything short of action is not love at all."

p. 628

"It is as though Paul were saying, "You must have love; without it you are simply not behaving as Christians.  And what is love?  It is to behave in ways opposite to yourselves!" (commenting on I Corinthians 13:4b-5)

p. 637

Gordon D. Fee
The New International Commentary on the New Testament - The First Epistle to the Corinthians


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