This is one of my favorite chapters. Me and Megan were talking about it on the last night at tamarack (and some other verses such as 1 Peter 3:2-4)
If I speak in the 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 knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor 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, and always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophecy 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.
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Hey, the passage on love is my favourite passage too. Its so simple, so beautiful, and yet it still has so much meaning its amazing. Growing up i used to have it hanging on my wall, just to help me remember the little things...to be patient, kind, to not give up... Maybe I'll hang it up again..
good times. you're an amazing girl. keep living in love!
do you read it every morning?
not every day, but quite a bit...
I read it this morning.
Its a passage that I can read over again, and still learn from...
Although, I can do that with any passage from the bible pretty much.
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