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1 Corinthians 13:2

The ecstatic gifts (verse I Corinthians 13:1) are worthless. Equally so are the teaching gifts (prophecy, knowledge of mysteries, all knowledge). Crasis here in kan=kai ean. Paul is not condemning these great gifts. He simply places love above them and essential to them. Equally futile is wonder-working faith "so as to remove mountains" (wste orh meqistanein) without love. This may have been a proverb or Paul may have known the words of Jesus (Matthew 17:20; Matthew 21:21).

I am nothing (ouqen eimi). Not ouqeiv, nobody, but an absolute zero. This form in q rather than d (ouden) had a vogue for a while (Robertson, Grammar, p. 219).

Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 13:2:

1 Corinthians 1:5
1 Corinthians 12:9
Colossians 1:13
Revelation 6:14

 

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