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Struggling to love another
person
If I speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong 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 do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give
all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be
burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind, and
is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act
unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not
take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in
unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails; but if there are
gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues,
they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we
know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes,
the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak
as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a
man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror
dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall
know fully just as I also have been fully known.
But now abide faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these is love.
(1 Corinthians 13 NASB) |