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What the Bible Says
about Love
The Greatest Gift - Love
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1 "Though I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass
or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift
of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though
I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love,
I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not
love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long
and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed
up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its
own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not
rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears
all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies,
they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there
is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know
in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that
which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away
childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror,
dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know
just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith,
hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Preach-the-Gospel.com
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