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Grace, holiness, and personal transformation
How does God's grace transform us?
Love is sanctification's goal and means. The qualities describe what grace produces as we grow toward Christian perfection. Perfect love—patient, kind, enduring—is the heart cleansed of sin and filled with God.
Sanctification is growth toward this love
Perfect love is possible by grace
The pure heart loves without self-seeking
ἀγάπη (agape) in Greek was uncommon before Christians gave it new meaning
μακροθυμεῖ (patient) is literally "long-tempered"
τέλειον (perfect/complete) in v.10 points to eschatological fullness
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