{"id":2428,"date":"2013-07-27T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2022-04-19T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T03:01:40","slug":"1-corinthians-131-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2428","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 13:1-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup>And though I have\u00a0the gift of\u00a0prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup>And though I bestow all my goods to feed\u00a0the poor,\u00a0and though I give my body to be burned,\u00a0but have not love, it profits me nothing.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>sounding brass (v.1) \u2014 probably a gong<\/h3>\n<h3>faith (v.2) \u2014 the gift of faith (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2411\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1 Corinthians 12:9<\/span><\/a>), not saving faith<\/h3>\n<h3>mountains (v.2) \u2014 could be symbolizing obstacles and difficulties<\/h3>\n<h3>bestow all my goods (v.3) \u2014 the gift of helps (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2425\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1 Corinthians 12:28<\/span><\/a>)<\/h3>\n<h3>Voluntarily submitting to burning and the banging of gongs and cymbals may be references to pagan rituals.<\/h3>\n<h3>to be burned (v.3) \u2014 There&#8217;s some manuscript evidence that this should read &#8220;that I may glory.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>Without love, I have nothing to offer, I gain nothing in return, and I have no value.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2\u00a0And though I have\u00a0the gift of\u00a0prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2428\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6931,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions\/6931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}