{"id":7125,"date":"2018-08-20T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=oyb&p=7125"},"modified":"2018-08-20T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T12:14:00","slug":"love-never-gives-up-never-loses-faith-is-always-hopeful-and-endures-through-every-circumstance-1-corinthians-137-nlt","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/love-never-gives-up-never-loses-faith-is-always-hopeful-and-endures-through-every-circumstance-1-corinthians-137-nlt","title":{"rendered":"“Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” (1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT)."},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOVE NEVER GIVES UP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Paul’s love chapter (1 Cor. 13) is one of the most wonderful descriptions of “agape” love found in any literature in human history. Yet, its lofty attributes are beyond mortal humanity absent the Spirit which inspired Paul’s writing. For “agape” love is God’s kind of love. It is unconditional, enduring and sacrificial. It is most fully demonstrated in that “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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God has not given up on us because agape love never gives up. “For God is love” (1 John 4:8).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Who do you know that needs God’s kind of love, the kind of love that never gives up?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOVE NEVER GIVES UP
\nPaul’s love chapter (1 Cor. 13) is one of the most wonderful descriptions of “agape” love found in any literature in human history. Yet, its lofty attributes are beyond mortal humanity absent the Spirit which inspired Paul’s writing. For “agape” love is God’s kind of love. It is unconditional, enduring and sacrificial. It is most fully demonstrated in that “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8).<\/p>\n

God has not given up on us because agape love never gives up. “For God is love” (1 John 4:8).<\/p>\n

Who do you know that needs God’s kind of love, the kind of love that never gives up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1313],"scripture-chapter":[1346],"oyb_day":[1759],"location":[],"class_list":["post-7125","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-1-corinthians","scripture-chapter-1346","oyb_day-august-20"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}