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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Love Is the
Greatest
1 Corinthians 13
(New Living Translation)
1.
If I could speak all the languages of earth and
of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only
be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2.
If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I
understood all of God’s secret plans and
possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith
that I could move mountains, but didn’t love
others, I would be nothing.
3. If I
gave everything I have to the poor and even
sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but
if I didn’t love others, I would have gained
nothing.
4.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or
boastful or proud
5. or rude. It
does not demand its own way. It is not
irritable, and it keeps no record of being
wronged.
6. It does not
rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever
the truth wins out.
7. Love never
gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful,
and endures through every circumstance.
8.
Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and
special knowledge will become useless. But love
will last forever!
9. Now our
knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even
the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the
whole picture!
10. But when
full understanding comes, these partial things
will become useless.
11.
When I was a child, I spoke and thought and
reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put
away childish things.
12. Now we see
things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but
then we will see everything with perfect
clarity. All that I know now is partial and
incomplete, but then I will know everything
completely, just as God now knows me completely.
13.
Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and
love—and the greatest of these is love.
This pure love from God is
that which I strive to attain for my own
character.
Ron
God
is so Good! Do you know Him? Would you like to
know Him? Write me
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