How we cite our quotes: (Chapter: Verse)
Quote #4
Keep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. (NRSV 1 Corinthians 16:13-14)
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity. (KJV 1 Corinthians 16:13-14)
At first, this may seem like a contradiction—be alert, firm, and strong… but loving, too. What gives? (P.S. We feel like we've heard this in a LeAnn Rimes song before.)
Quote #5
Let anyone be accursed who has no love for the Lord. Our Lord, come! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus. (NRSV 1 Corinthians 16:22-24)
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. (KJV 1 Corinthians 16:22-24)
Translation: love God—or else. It's not often you see people cursed for not loving, but this is how serious Paul is about the whole love thing.
Quote #6
This punishment by the majority is enough for such a person; so now instead you should forgive and console him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. I wrote for this reason: to test you and to know whether you are obedient in everything. Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ. And we do this so that we may not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. (NRSV 2 Corinthians 2:6-11)
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. (KJV 2 Corinthians 2:6-11)
Again with the cursing and the love. Paul is happy that the Corinthians have finally punished the Offending Brother. But now that they're done, they should get to work on loving him again. Huh? Is Paul being hypocritical or is there something else going on here?