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1 Corinthians 13:13 concludes the chapter with the three things that abide: faith, hope, and love. Paul names love as the greatest, because faith will give way to sight and hope to possession, while love expresses God's own character and continues forever. We ought to live our lives based on these three, with love as the primary and foundational virtue.

1 Corinthians 13:11-12 illustrates the progression from the partial to the finished work with two analogies. When a human is in the child stage of life, their speech, thought, and reasoning are appropriate yet limited, but as they grow up, these abilities give way to a grown man or woman’s abilities. They become mature and complete. Likewise, our current state of life is like looking into the dim reflection in a mirror, but when we reach eternity with God, it will give way to seeing God face to face and knowing Him fully, just as God already knows us.

1 Corinthians 13:8-10 contrasts the permanence of love with the temporary service of the gifts: prophecy, tongues, and knowledge belong to the present season of existence. Right now, on this earth, we only have partial knowledge. Our spiritual gifts are helpful for the time being, but when the Kingdom of Christ comes, the partial will be done away. Love will continue.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 describes love in fifteen verbs. Love acts with patience and kindness, turns away from jealousy, bragging, arrogance, rudeness, self-seeking, irritability, and the record-keeping of wrongs. It refuses joy in unrighteousness while rejoicing with the truth, and bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things. It is a force for good to others. It looks to bless outwardly and overcome all that sin and the Enemy throw at us. It is the foundational and central virtue for the obedient believer.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 describes the most impressive spiritual giftings but without love. Paul poses the hyperbolic picture of himself, or any believer, knowing how to speak in the languages of all men and spirits, to know all mysteries and all knowledge, to move mountains with faith, to give all material things to the needy, to die a martyr's death. None of these things matter if he does not do them with love. A proud man who lives this superior spiritual life on the outside but has no love alongside his actions is simply an empty man making empty noise failing to fulfill God's purpose for him.

John 20:26-29: Jesus appears to Thomas: Eight days later Jesus again appeared to His disciples while they were gathered behind locked doors, and this time Thomas was with them. Jesus invited Thomas to examine His hands and side and urged him to stop doubting and believe. Thomas responded by confessing, "My Lord and my God!," and Jesus declared that those who believe without seeing are blessed. This is Jesus's sixth recorded appearance after His resurrection.

John 20:11-18: Jesus's First Resurrection Appearance: Mary Magdalene remains at the tomb after Peter and John depart. While weeping, she sees two angels inside the tomb and then encounters the risen Jesus, though she initially mistakes Him for the gardener. When Jesus calls her by name, Mary recognizes Him, and Jesus commissions her to announce His resurrection to the disciples, making her the first witness of the risen Lord.

John 20:3-10: Peter and John Enter the Empty Tomb: Peter and John run to Jesus's tomb after Mary Magdalene reports that His body is missing. John arrives first and looks inside, but Peter enters the tomb first and sees the empty linen wrappings and face-cloth that had covered Jesus's body. John then enters the tomb, sees the evidence, and believes, though neither disciple yet understands the Scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead. They return to their homes.

John 20:1-2: Mary Magdalene arrives at Jesus's tomb: John 20:1-2 describes Mary Magdalene coming to Jesus's tomb early on the first day of the week while it was still dark. When she sees that the stone has been removed from the tomb, she runs to Peter and John. Mary tells them that the Lord has been taken from the tomb and that she and the other women do not know where His body has been laid.

Micah 7:18-20 concludes the book of prophecy with an expression of worship: Who is a God like You? The God of Israel forgives iniquity, passes over the rebellion of the remnant of His inheritance, withholds His anger, and delights in showing steadfast love. He will cast our sins beneath His feet, hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea, and remain faithful to the promises He made to Abraham and Jacob from ancient times.

Micah 7:14-17 records Micah's closing prayer of a scattered flock: rule over us, provide for us, and restore us to the rich pastures of former days. The LORD responds by promising a deliverance that will recall the mighty wonders of the exodus. The nations will witness His power, their boasting will fall silent, and they will come trembling from their strongholds to stand before Him.

Micah 7:11-13 describes that a day is coming when Zion's walls will be rebuilt and her boundaries will be extended. The scattered people of God will return from Assyria, Egypt, and the farthest reaches of the earth—from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain. Yet beyond the restored city, the earth will bear the consequences of its inhabitants' wickedness.

Micah 7:7-10 continues Micah's reflections and warnings. While his generation sinks into despair, Micah takes his stand as a watchman, waiting expectantly for God and confident that He will hear. Speaking for fallen Zion, he acknowledges her guilt, accepts the LORD's righteous discipline, and waits for the divine Judge to take up her cause. The enemy who mocked Zion's God will ultimately be humiliated and brought low.

Micah 7:1-6 describes the prophet Micah reaching for figs and finding stripped branches: faithful citizens have disappeared from the land. Officials sell their judgments for bribes, the powerful weave their schemes together, and the best man left is like a briar, while the most upright is like a thorn hedge. Betrayal has invaded the family itself.

1 Chronicles 15:29 closes the chapter at the window of the palace: as the ark of the covenant of the LORD comes into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul watches King David leaping and celebrating, and she despises him in her heart.

1 Chronicles 15:27-28 pictures David clothed with a robe of fine linen and a linen ephod, together with the Levites carrying the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the leader of the singing, as all Israel brings up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, the sound of the horn, trumpets, loud-sounding cymbals, harps, and lyres.

1 Chronicles 15:25-26 narrates David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands going with joy to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom, and the sacrifice of seven bulls and seven rams because God was helping the Levites who were carrying the ark.

1 Chronicles 15:23-24 stations Berechiah and Elkanah as gatekeepers for the ark, names the seven priests—Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer—who blew the trumpets before the ark of God, and adds Obed-edom and Jehiah as gatekeepers for the ark.

1 Chronicles 15:19-22 details the musical assignments: Heman, Asaph, and Ethan with bronze cymbals, eight musicians with harps tuned to alamoth, six leading with lyres tuned to the sheminith, and Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, in charge of the singing and giving instruction because he was skillful.

1 Chronicles 15:16-18 tells how David directed the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers with instruments of music—harps, lyres, and loud-sounding cymbals—to raise sounds of joy, and how they appointed Heman the son of Joel, Asaph the son of Berechiah, and Ethan the son of Kushaiah, with relatives of the second rank including Obed-edom.