Charity is a dominate Spiritual Characteristic

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

1Co 13:2 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 charity, I am nothing.

1Co 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Characteristics of Charity

• 1Co 13:4 Charity suffereth long,
• and is kind;
• charity envieth not;
• charity vaunteth not itself,
• is not puffed up,
• 1Co 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly,
• seeketh not her own,
• is not easily provoked,
• thinketh no evil;
• 1Co 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity,
• but rejoiceth in the truth;
  1Co 13:7 Beareth all things,
• believeth all things,
• hopeth all things,
• endureth all things.
• 1Co 13:8 Charity never faileth:
  • That which does fail
    • but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
    • whether there be tongues, they shall cease;
    • whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
      
  • That which we have only in part
    • 1Co 13:9 For we know in part,
    • and we prophesy in part.
      
  • That which is temporary
    • 1Co 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
    • 1Co 13:11
      • 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.
        
    • 1Co 13:12 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.
        
• Conclusion: 1Co 13:13
  • And now abideth
    • faith,
    • hope,
    • charity, these three;
      
  • but the greatest of these is charity.