May 5, 2024
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1If I speak in the tongues of mortals
and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and
understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all
faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have
love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all my possessions,
and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have
love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient; love is kind; love
is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its
own way; it is not irritable or
resentful; 6it does not rejoice in
wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will
come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge,
it will come to an end. 9For we know only in part, and we
prophesy only in part; 10but when the complete comes, the
partial will come to an end. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a
child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I
became an adult, I put an end to childish
ways. 12For now we see in a mirror, dimly,
but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I
will know fully, even as I have been fully
known. 13And now faith, hope, and love abide,
these three; and the greatest of these is
love.