March 25, 2004

  • Well, more on love, hehe.

    ~~I Corinthians 13:4-8~~
    Charity is always translated agape

    "Charity suffereth long" suffereth long - 3114 makrothumeo = have patience, be patient or patiently enduring
    Patient - bearing misfortune, provocation, annoyance, delay, hardship, pain, etc. with fortitude and calm and without complaint, anger, or the like

    "and is kind" kind - 5541 chresteuomai = act benevolently
    Kind - of a good or benevolent nature or dispoisition, as a person

    "charity envieth not" envieth - 2206 zeloo = be jealous over
    Envieth - a feeling of discontent or jealousy, usually with ill will, at seeing another's superiority, advantages, or success

    "charity vaunteth not itself" vaunteth - 4068 perpereuomai = to boast

    "is not puffed up" puffed - 5448 phusioo = make proud

    "Doth not behave itself unseemingly" behave unseemingly - 807 aschemoneo = behave self uncomely, to be unbecoming
    Behave - to act in a particular way
    Unseemingly - not in keeping with established standards of taste or proper form

    "seeketh not her own" seeketh - 2212 zeteo = be about, desire ; own - 1438 heautou = oneself

    "is not easily provoked" provoked - 3947 paroxuno = to exasperate, stir
    Exasperate - to irritate to a high degree, annoy extremely

    "thinketh no evil" thinketh - 3049 logizomai = reason, think on ; evil - 2556 kakos = bad, evil, wicked ; wicked - morally bad

    "Rejoiceth not in iniquity" rejoiceth - 5463 chairo = to be cheerful, be glad ; iniquity - 93 adikia = moral wrongfulness (of character, life, or act)

    "but rejoiceth in the truth" rejoiceth - 4796 sugchairo = to sympathize in gladness, congratulate ; truth - 225 aletheuo = truth = conformity with fact or reality

    "beareth all things" beareth - 4722 stego = to cover with silence

    "believeth all things" believeth - 4100 pisteuo = to have faith

    "hopeth all things" hopeth - 1679 elpizo = to expect or confide

    "endureth all things" endureth - 5278 hupomeno = to undergo, bear

    "Charity never faileth" faileth - 1601 ekpipto = to lose, become inefficient

    4. love bears misfortune, provocation, annoyance, delay, hardship, pain, etc. with fortitude and calm and without complaint, anger, or the like, and is of a good or benevolent nature or disposition; love does not have a feeling of discontent or jealousy, usually with ill will, at seeing another's superiority, advantages or success; love doesn't brag about itself, is not proud of itself,
    5. does not act in a particular way that doesn't keep with an established standard of taste or proper form, does not desire itself, is not easily irritated to a high degree or annoyed extremely, does not reason or think on anything morally bad;
    6. is not cheerful or glad in moral wrongfulness (of character, life or act), but sympathizes in gladness of conformity with fact or reality
    7. covering with silence all things, to have faith in all things, to expect or confide in all things, to undergo or bear all things
    8. love never loses or becomes inefficient

    Don't forget ~I John 4:8 "God is love"
    God does all that and is all that.

    I know that's a lot to take in, but Praise God for all that.