August 1, 2005
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from the stealing-others-blog-content dept.
And now I will show you the most excellent way:
If
I speak in tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a
resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy
and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have a faith
that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give up
all I possess and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I
gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; it does not envy; it
does not boast; it is not proud. It is not rude; it is not
self-seeking; it is not easily angered; it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always
protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never
fails. But where there are prophecies, they will pass away; where there
are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge it will
pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when
perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I
talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a
poor reflection, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.
- I Corinthians, chapter 13
