bears all things

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​“Charity beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." (1 Corinthians 13:7)

The grace of charity, or love, is absolutely essential to true godliness. So essential is it that, if we have everything and not charity, it profiteth us nothing. The absence of charity is absolutely fatal to vital godliness…for if you excelled in every spiritual gift, yet if you had not charity, all the rest would profit you nothing whatsoever. One would think that such excellent gifts might benefit us a little, but no, the apostle sums them all up, and said of the whole, "it profiteth me nothing." I pray that this may be understood of us at the very beginning, lest we should manage to slip away from the truth taught us by the Holy Ghost in this place, and should excuse ourselves from being loving by the notion that we are so inconsiderable that such high virtue cannot be required of us, or so feeble that we cannot be expected to attain to it. You must attain it, or you cannot enter into eternal life, for if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his, and the Spirit of Christ is sure to beget the charity of our text, which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."


From Charles Spurgeon, A Sermon (No. 1617) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, September 4th, 1881, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington

GiGi❤️

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