1-25-26// LET LOVE BE WITHOUT HYPOCRISY
Michael Morgan
Rom 12:9-13 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good
WITHOUT HYPOCRISY:
anupokritos (an-oo-pok'-ree-tos); undissembled, i.e. sincere:
unfeigned, undisguised, sincere
sincere, genuine, without hypocrisy; of good character, lacking pretense and prideful show
KJV - without dissimulation (hypocrisy), unfeigned.
HYPOCRITE
hupokrites (hoop-ok-ree-tace'); an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite"):
1. one who answers, an interpreter
2. an actor, stage player
3. a dissembler, pretender, hypocrite
implying arrogance and hardness of heart, utterly devoid of sincerity and genuineness
KJV - hypocrite.
Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
1 Peter 1:22-23 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Cor 13 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.