Knowledge Puffs Up, Love Builds Up
“Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth,” reads the Common Version 1 Cor. 8:1. Clearer, stronger, and sweeter reads the American Standard Revised, margin, “Knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up.” Yet men care more for knowledge than love. Knowledge, good, bad, and indifferent, may be gotten by human effort. Much of it is not so, but it passes as current money. Genuine, unselfish love can come into the human heart only by the Spirit of God, by whose presence His love is shed abroad. Rom. 5:5. Knowledge boasts, love builds. One is empty; the other solid. The difference between knowledge and love is the difference between an inflated balloon and a well-built house, between a soap-bubble and a polished jewel. The knowledge of this world passes; love is eternal.