08/17/19 LOVE IS THE RIGHT TRANSLATION

08/17/19 LOVE IS THE RIGHT TRANSLATION
 
2/3 God equips His people for ministry with "gifts of the Spirit" but AGAPE' (self denying love) is greater than any gift.
 
THE VERSE BEFORE THE LOVE CHAPTER
This verse leads straight into 1 Corinthians 13, which describes agape' (Gr. self denying love).
1 Corinthians 12:31
31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

THE VERSE AFTER THE LOVE CHAPTER
This verse resumes the importance of spiritual gifts, but restates the necessity of PURSUING love.
1 Corinthians 14:1
1 Follow after charity (*LOVE), and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

THE SAME WORD FOR LOVE IS USED IN THESE VERSES.
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

1 John 3:16
16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1 John 4:7-21
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

IN THIS PASSAGE, KJV TRANSLATES AGAPE' AS CHARITY AND LOVE.
In 1 Corinthians 8:1 the same Greek word is again mistranslated as "charity" in the KJV.
1 Corinthians 8:1-3
1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, *but charity (should be LOVE) edifieth.
2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 *But if any man love God (properly translated as LOVE), the same is known of him.