1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. NASB

I was driving yesterday and listening the The Threshold of a Dream by the Moody Blues. One lyric really stuck out at me and that line was “giving without measure”. I was taken back in remembrance of this description of how love acts. “Love is” is the standard of action in my life. Do I love like this? Then it struck me that the line “love is giving without measure” isn’t listed in 1 Corinthians 13.

Loving without measure isn’t scriptural and neither is it false doctrine. Verse 8 that follows here begins with the words “Love never fails.” That is a limitless expression. Giving without measure is a limitless expression. Now we see the danger of lists, they sound limiting, as if that is all there is to it. I dare say it is not and to include everything that love is could be rather long.

John 3:34 For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure. NASB

There is your verse for giving without measure.

John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. NASB

Do we  meter the output or do we just let it flow? We are not in danger of running out of this water because it is after all given without measure.

So I would encourage you not to look at 1 Corinthians 13 as an all-inclusive list but rather as a quality control check to see if the water coming out flows from The Fountain. Ref. Rev. 7:17