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.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete...but when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.
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.
Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
5 comments:
surprised you didn't get any people rebuking you for invoking such a controversial phrase these days. Brave sir.
Yeah. I was reading the end of this chapter and thought, "look at that! Love wins!" :)
For those that don't know, this entire post came from 1 Corinthians 13.
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Brandon
You write very interestingly and I enjoy tring to keep up with all of your thoughts. Look forward to seeing you and Merissa at Andrew and Johanna's wedding in July. Proud to have you for a grandson.
Gramps
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