08/17/19 IT IS "LOVE," NOT "CHARITY"

08/17/19 IT IS "LOVE," NOT "CHARITY"
 
1/3 Sadly, KJV (1 Co. 13) translated weaker, "charity," (from Latin, "caritas") rather than "love," for the Greek word "agape."

IT IS "LOVE," NOT "CHARITY"

There are 24 times that the KJV, New Testament mistakenly uses "charity" instead of the proper translation "love."
The word, "love' always fits in each of the passages where the Greek word agape' is used, but the word "charity is not an acceptable substitute for "love."
Charity, as it is properly understood, is often a characteristic of love, but it is not equal to love.

KJV 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 with Love instead of Charity.
Notice vs. 3 actually refers to charity as being distinct from LOVE.
I use * to mark points.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not LOVE, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not LOVE, I am nothing.

*3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not LOVE, it profiteth me nothing.

4 LOVE suffereth long, and is kind; LOVE envieth not; LOVE vaunteth not (*exalt) itself, is not puffed up (*arrogant),

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, *seeketh not her own, *is not easily provoked, *thinketh no evil (*takes no account of evil);

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

*7 *Beareth all things (*shields against abuse), believeth all things (*chooses to believe the best about people), hopeth all things , endureth all things (*stands up under all abuse).

8 LOVE never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abideth faith, hope, LOVE, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE.

KJV mistakenly used the word "charity" instead of "love" in these passages...
1 Co. 8:1; 1 Co. 14:1; 1 Co. 16:14; Co. 3:14; 1 Th. 3:6; 2 Th. 1:3; 1 Tm 1:5; 1 Tm. 2:15; 1 Tm. 4:12; 2 Tm. 2:22; 2 Tm. 3:10; Ti. 2: