The apostle next pointed out the qualities of love that make it so important. He described these in relationship to a person"s character that love rules. We see them most clearly in God and in Christ but also in the life of anyone in whose heart God"s love reigns. [source][source][source]
"The observance of the truths of this chapter ... would have solved their [1] problems." [2][source]
"Paul"s central section [3] uses anaphora (repetition of the first element) extensively. One of the three major types of rhetoric was epideictic (involving praise or blame), and one of the three types of epideictic rhetoric was the encomium, a praise of a person or subject. One common rhetorical exercise was an encomium on a particular virtue, as here (or Hebrews 11:3-31, also using anaphora)." [2][source]