1 Corinthians 13:7, Charity Endureth All Things (2)
The Apostle Paul, writer of this book of 1 Corinthians, was a living example of this biblical trait of charity. He wrote in 2 Corinthians the living testimony of God’s love in him enabling him to endure great afflictions for the gospel. He testified in 2 Corinthians 11:24-27 “Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.” Again he testified before his martyrdom in 2 Timothy.