Sermons on 1 Corinthians 13:4-12:

Una Familia Para Crecer, Amar Y Servir Series

Contributed by Alfredo Vargas on Jan 10, 2026

Hermanos, todos sabemos que una familia no se construye sola. No basta con vivir bajo el mismo techo, ni con compartir un apellido. Una familia necesita dirección, necesita propósito, necesita visión.

Habacuc 2:2 “Y Jehová me respondió y dijo: Escribe la visión, y declárala en tablas, para que corra el que leyere en ella.” Hermanos, todos sabemos que una familia no se construye sola. No basta con vivir bajo el mismo techo, ni con compartir un apellido. Una familia necesita ...read more

Scripture: Habakkuk 2:2, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Denomination: Baptist

Love Believes All Things

Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Jan 14, 2026

Trust is a tricky business. Trust isn’t easy to come by; once it is lost it isn’t easy to regain. On the one hand, it’s a prerequisite for many worthwhile things. On the other hand, putting your trust in the wrong place often carries a high price.

Alba 1-11-2026 LOVE BELIEVES ALL THINGS I Corinthians 13:7 Pew Researchers keep track of the trust Americans have in their government. Would it surprise you to hear that on average 73% of people trust the government just about always or most of the time. If that sounds confusing to you, that was ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Love Always Hopes

Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Jan 19, 2026

In a marriage, if both partners put their hope in the promises of God and have faith that He will be with them in the daily issues of life, the couple can survive and thrive through the ups and downs that come to every person.

Alba 1-18-2026 LOVE ALWAYS HOPES I Corinthians 13:7 In a Peanuts comic strip, it shows Snoopy thinking to himself: “Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Ohh...there’s so little hope for advancement.” He sounds a little hopeless. You don’t have to be a ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

You Can’t Become What You Can’t See

Contributed by David Dunn on Jan 21, 2026

Believers live between real sight and coming glory, changed not by striving but by beholding Christ, as salvation moves us toward full vision. If you are forgiven, faithful, and fatigued, your faith has not failed — your heart is longing for glory.

A while back, I noticed something strange about my phone. I was trying to take a picture in low light — nothing dramatic, just an ordinary moment — and what appeared on the screen didn’t quite match what I was seeing with my eyes. The image was flat. Grainy. Faces lost their depth. Colors were ...read more

Scripture: John 17:24, 1 Corinthians 13:12, 2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:6, 1 John 3:2  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Seventh-Day Adventist

Getting Church Membership Right

Contributed by Lester Potts on Feb 9, 2026

Friends, the church is not perfect. No family is. But God has placed us here—each of us—as essential parts of His body. It’s time to move from entitlement to engagement. From being served to serving. From division to unity in Christ.

Introduction: A Tale of Two Memberships Good morning, Let’s begin today by journeying back nearly two thousand years to a vibrant, complicated city—a city named Corinth. The church at Corinth was buzzing with activity. It was growing. It was diverse. But it was also, sadly, divided. Groups were ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 1 Corinthians 12:26-28, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Denomination: Baptist

Our Lenten Prayer: "lord, That I May See"

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 10, 2026

All of us need the fire of the Holy Spirit to penetrate our hearts and minds so that we may be free from sin and energized to walk in Christ’s light

Sixth Sunday Integral 2026 Those of us who came of age before or during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) knew this Sunday before Ash Wednesday as “Quinquagesima Sunday,” or Fifty-Day Sunday. In round numbers, it’s fifty days before Easter. Lent is called Quadragesima in Latin, because it is ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 119:1-2, Psalm 119:4-5, Psalm 119:17-18, Psalm 119:33-34, Matthew 5:17-37, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Luke 18:41, 1 Corinthians 2:6-10  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Catholic

The Ideal Valentine Series

Contributed by Dr. Lewis W. Gregory on Feb 10, 2026

If you want to be a Valentine, then you need to be the kind of Valentine someone would want to have.

THE IDEAL VALENTINE INTRODUCTION - If you want to be a Valentine, then you need to be the kind of Valentine someone would want to have. The following proverb is a good starting point. “A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother” ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:31, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Galatians 5:22

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Love Endures All Things

Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Feb 10, 2026

I Corinthians 13:7 has a list of four things that love will do. It says that love “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things”. That phrase “endures all things” is what we are going to talk about today, and it raises some questions.

Alba 2-8-2026 LOVE ENDURES ALL THINGS I Corinthians 13:7 It can be difficult these days to find a love that endures. There’s the story of a husband who placed an ad in the Rocky Mountain News just prior to a Super Bowl game some years ago. It said, “Will trade my non-cooking and non-shopping ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:7

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Behold What Manner Of Love Is This? …that We Should Be Called His Children?

Contributed by Jim Brown on Feb 14, 2026

If you search for true love, you find Jesus! No greater love!

Behold What Manner of Love is This? …That We Should Be Called His Children? If you search for true love, you find Jesus! No greater love! How to be saved: How do you become a child of God? By rejecting the sinful nature and by faith trusting in Jesus for the forgiveness of sin and accepting His ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 3:1-3, 1 Peter 4:1-4, 2 Corinthians 3:17-18, 1 John 2:1, Romans 8:28-30, 1 John 3:2, Philippians 1:6, 1 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Corinthians 15:50-54, John 1:12-13, Revelation 3:17-21  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

Love God, Love Others

Contributed by Jim Brown on Feb 14, 2026

What is love? Noun, verb? Feeling, a thing, an intangible? Well people have argued about what love is for a long time. When people ask, just answer yes and so much more! God is love!

Love God, Love Others Valentine’s day is coming up! The Love ?holiday? - I’m not sure if it’s a holiday or not? The popular belief about St Valentine is that he was a Catholic priest from Rome in the third century AD. Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were ...read more

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-21, John 3:16, Mark 12:30-31, Romans 5:6-8, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, Romans 8:38-39, John 13:34-35  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Baptist

A Rhetorial Question: What Is Your Life?

Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 14, 2026

Life at best is temporary. What is your life? You can re-write your family history by telling the story in wisdom and love.

LET US ASK A RHETORIAL QUESTION: FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? CAN LITTLE PEOPLE RE-WRITE FAMILY HISTORY? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com Watch YouTube: Wade Hughes WHAT MEAL WOULD YOU ORDER IF YOU KNEW IT WAS YOUR LAST? WHAT TALE ARE YOU TELLING? SEVERAL YEARS AGO I WAS ...read more

Scripture: James 4:14-15, Psalm 90:9-10, 1 Corinthians 13:11

Denomination: Assembly Of God

Unwavering Love

Contributed by Dr. Zack Sizemore on Feb 16, 2026

A sermon that will unveil the true love of Christ

First Corinthians chapter 13 has been referred to by others as a misconception of context. These verses are written from the pen of the apostle Paul because the Church of Corinth was in a place of division and total disarray. Paul wrote to them to correct their abuse of the gift of tongues and the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Futility Or Fulfillment

Contributed by Sylvester Fergusson on Feb 22, 2026

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, there was no profit under the sun. kjv

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, there was no profit under the sun. kjv Then I thought about all that I had done and how hard i had worked doing it and I realized that it ...read more

Scripture: Luke 18:18-22, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Luke 12:16-20, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Denomination: Adventist

The Greatest Is Love

Contributed by Roger Hasselquist on Feb 23, 2026

There are many good things, but only a few of them will last. Only a few will remain when all else is gone.

Alba 2-22-2026 THE GREATEST IS LOVE I Corinthians 13:11-13 When I was growing up, my mother made my clothes. And not only mine but for all five of us children, and for herself and my dad. She made shirts, dresses, pajamas and many other things. She even made some overalls for dad. Some of the ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:11-13

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Face To Face PRO Sermon

Contributed by Sermon Research Assistant on Sep 27, 2023

Explore the hope, necessity, and blessing of meeting Christ face to face, emphasizing the importance of our personal relationship with Him.

Hey there, friends and family! Today we're going to be diving deep into the heart of 1 Corinthians 13:12. This verse says, "For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." We're going to unpack ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12

Topics: Meeting Christ, Face To Face