{"id":3552,"date":"2022-07-20T01:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2022-07-20T01:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:52:37","slug":"1-corinthians-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 13:6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Verse 6 \u2013 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One final consideration of love from the negative side reminds us that \u201cit does not rejoice in wrongdoing\u201d (\u03bf\u1f50 \u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9 \u1f10\u03c0\u1f76 \u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f00\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u1f77\u1fb3). The verb (\u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9, \u201crejoice\u201d) depicts resting in a state of happiness and well-being.[1]<\/a> The present tense indicates the present and ongoing bliss of that state of mind and heart. But that state is disrupted when \u201cwrongdoing\u201d (\u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f00\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u1f77\u1fb3) takes place. The noun means \u201cunrighteousness\u201d and here stands over against \u201cthe truth\u201d (\u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f00\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03b5\u1f77\u1fb3) in the next clause.[2]<\/a> Note the definite articles with both nouns. There is only one truth and every act against it is imagined here. Wherever unrighteousness occurs love recoils over the offense. Where joy recedes, grief fills the void. The preposition (\u1f10\u03c0\u1f76, \u201cat\u201d) generally depicts something resting \u201con\u201d something else.[3]<\/a> Like the dove sent out by Noah, love finds no place to rest over the sea of \u201cwrongdoing\u201d (Gen. 8:8-9). It remains in flight until it can return to \u201cthe truth\u201d and at last rest itself again in rejoicing. It is not that love does not discern the presence of \u201cwrongdoing,\u201d it is that it cannot rest upon it in rejoicing. The world and its people, of course, find their joy in acting out their own desires in disregard for \u201cthe truth.\u201d For this reason, John commands, \u201cDo not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world– the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions– is not from the Father but is from the world\u201d (1 John 2:15-16). \u201cThe mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot\u201d (Rom. 8:7). That is why Paul said, \u201cto set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace\u201d (v.6). This raises questions, then, about how those indwelt by the Spirit are to respond to acts and expressions of \u201cwrongdoing\u201d perpetrated in their presence. Dirty jokes and coarse language. Unlawful unions. Breaking the law. Defying authorities. Backstabbing, backbiting, gossip. All these and more grieve the heart of the one where dwells the Spirit whose first fruit is love.<\/p>\n

By way of a contrast (\u03b4\u1f72, \u201cbut\u201d) Paul returns to viewing love from a positive angle, telling us love \u201crejoices with the truth\u201d (\u03c3\u03c5\u03b3\u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9 . . . \u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f00\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03b5\u1f77\u1fb3). The verb (\u03c3\u03c5\u03b3\u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9, \u201crejoices with\u201d) is a compound comprised of the immediately preceding verb \u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03c9 (\u201cto rejoice\u201d) and \u03c3\u1f7b\u03bd (\u201cwith\u201d) as a prefix (\u201cwith\u201d). Where love must stay in flight over and find no rest upon \u201cwrongdoing,\u201d here love at the mere sight of \u201cthe truth\u201d fills with delight. As already noted, \u201cthe truth\u201d (\u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f00\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03b5\u1f77\u1fb3) stands in direct contrast to \u201cwrongdoing\u201d (\u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f00\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u1f77\u1fb3). If \u201cwrongdoing\u201d is all that stands in opposition to God\u2019s expressed will, then \u201cthe truth\u201d is that will itself, as expressed in the gospel, declared, unfolded, and expounded for us in the written Word of God. Joy breaks out wherever love spies one who finds reality expressed in the gospel and conforms one\u2019s life to it.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> BDAG, 7866.1; Louw-Nida, 25.125.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Friberg, 475.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Harris, 137.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verse 6 \u2013 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. One final consideration of love from the negative side reminds us that \u201cit does not rejoice in wrongdoing\u201d (\u03bf\u1f50 \u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9 \u1f10\u03c0\u1f76 \u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f00\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u1f77\u1fb3). The verb (\u03c7\u03b1\u1f77\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9, \u201crejoice\u201d) depicts resting in a state of happiness and well-being.[1] The present tense indicates the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians","category-love","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-Vi","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3553,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}