King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart. Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift--articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules. 1Kings 10: 23-25
Yet King Solomon did not keep God first in the loving relationships he had:
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter--Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. 1Kings 11: 1-2
As you can see, the bible does not deny that King Solomon "loved" these other women. We have the free will to love outside of how God intended love to be for us. In relation to the sixth verse from 1Corinthians 13 however, Solomon delighted in evil. How do we know this? Continuing in the story:
He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been. He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done. 1Kings 11: 3-6
Solomon knew the truth, yet did not rejoice in it. Thus, he did evil in the eyes of the Lord. God had spoken the truth to him many years before. He had been warned specifically about what not to do and then in the name of worldly love, he did it anyway. He allowed his soul to dictate what love was to his spirit. As a result, Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord and did not rejoice in the truth.
The sad thing is that we make the same mistakes to this very day in the name of "love". Not Godly love, but love as the world would have us believe it is. We can easily compromise. We can easily settle for less than God has for us, because of our fear of loneliness. Some would even venture outside of the realm of believers to find love, ignoring further biblical directives:
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 2Corinthians 6:14
