1Cor:
CHAPTER 13
If I speak with the tongues of men and
of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or
a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know
all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so
as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And
if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body
to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love
envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth
not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked,
taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness,
but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love never faileth: but whether there
be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues,
they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done
away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when
that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be
done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as
a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I
have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly;
but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know
fully even as also I was fully known. But now abideth faith,
hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
If we pray and discern with a common love as our goals
remembering that forgiveness is the first step in agape (spiritual)
love, then blessings and miracles will abound forever. With love
grace, hope, and all other aspects of salvation and the blessings
of God will flourish.
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