The Apostle Paul offers his friends in Corinth a description of God's love that offers hope for reconciliation to a divided group. This most excellent way found in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 is what our world needs today. view commentary at https://cartoonistbible.com/visuals/1-corinthians-131-8-what-is-love/

2. Letter in
the
Context
of Paul’s
Life
From the Acts of the
Apostles
the following images are
from A Cartoonist’s Guide
to Acts

34. Chapter
12
Spiritual
Gifts
One Body,
Many parts
Chapter
13
A More
Excellent
way…LOVE
Chapter
14
Let Love
Guide your
gifts and
worship

36. But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you
a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:31 (NRSV)

37. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

38. What is Love?
There are four words in Greek that we translate love.
storge: It means the kind of love you can have for an inanimate
inanimate object or a pet.
phileo: It means brotherly love; the kind of love exchanged between
exchanged between friends.
eros: It deals with the sexual passions exchanged between lovers.
between lovers.
agape: It is the kind of love that God has for creation. God’s love
God’s love is agape love and it is agape that Paul is talking
in this chapter.

39. Love is
• patient
• kind
Love is not
• envious
• boastful
• arrogant
• rude
• it does not insist on its own way
• it is not irritable or resentful
• it does not rejoice in wrongdoing
But
rejoices in the truth.
It
• bears all things,
• believes all things,
• hopes all things,
• endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4–8 (NRSV)
Love never ends.
Get the Greek words at
https://cartoonistbible.com/visuals/1-
corinthians-131-8-what-is-love/

40. Two possible ways to read this:
1.You need to love like this
in order to get it right.
2.This is God’s love for
you, so live like you are
loved.

50. Chapter 43
The Spirit
of God:
Loving
Neighbor