‘Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly.‘ — 1 Corinthians 13:4, 5 HAVING shewn the nature and tendency of charity or Christian love, in respect to our receiving injury, and doing good to others—that it ‘suffering long and is kind;’ and also with respect to the good possessed by [...]
Love & Charity
The Spirit of Charity is a Humble Spirit – Part II by Jonathan Edwards
II. That the spirit of charity is an humble spirit.— And this I would do in two particulars: first, by shewing how the spirit of charity, or divine love, implies and tends to humility and then by shewing how such exercises of this charity as the gospel tends to draw forth do especially imply and [...]
Gospel Charity by John Owen
‘And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.’ ~ Colossians 3:14, KJV The word ‘agape,’ which is translated in the King James Version as ‘charity’ is the only word used in the New Testament to signify ‘love.’ And I wish that this word had always been rendered as such [...]
