1Cor 8:1, 3, 13:1-8, 2Cor 5:10, 15, Gal 5:6, 1Jo 2:10, 4:7-18 | ESV | STEP | Now concerning food offered to idols : we know that all of us possess knowledge . This knowledge puffs up , but love builds up .

1 Now concerning ^{▼▼The expression Now concerning introduces a reply to a question in the Corinthians’ letter; see 7:1} ^bfood offered to idols: we know that ^c“all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” ^dpuffs up, ^ebut love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:3

3 But if anyone loves God, ^fhe is known by God. ^{▼▼Greek him}

1 Corinthians 13:1-8

The Way of Love

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have ^hprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, ⁱso as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 ^jIf I give away all I have, and ^kif I deliver up my body to be burned, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast} but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 ^mLove is patient and ⁿkind; love ^odoes not envy or boast; it ^pis not arrogant 5 or rude. It ^qdoes not insist on its own way; it ^ris not irritable or resentful; ^{▼▼Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing} 6 it ^tdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ^urejoices with the truth. 7 ^vLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ^wendures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

2 Corinthians 5:10

10 For ^xwe must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ^yso that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

2 Corinthians 5:15

15 and he died for all, ^zthat those who live might no longer live for themselves but ^aafor him who for their sake died and was raised.

Galatians 5:6

6 For in Christ Jesus ^abneither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but ^aconly faith working through love.

1 John 2:10

10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him ^{▼▼Or it} there is no ^aecause for stumbling.

1 John 4:7-18

God Is Love

7 Beloved, ^aflet us love one another, for love is from God, and ^agwhoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 ^ahAnyone who does not love does not know God, because ^aiGod is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that ^ajGod sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, ^aknot that we have loved God ^albut that he loved us and sent his Son to be ^amthe propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 ^anNo one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and ^aohis love is perfected in us.

13 ^apBy this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And ^aqwe have seen and testify that ^arthe Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of ^asthe world. 15 ^atWhoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So ^auwe have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. ^avGod is love, and ^awwhoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this ^axis love perfected with us, so that ^aywe may have confidence for the day of judgment, because ^azas he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but ^baperfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not ^bbbeen perfected in love.