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1Corinthians 13
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The Way of Love

13If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.G1437G2980G1100G444G2532G32G1161G2192G3361G26G1096G2278G5475G2228G214G2950 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.G2532G1437G2192G4394G2532G1492G3956G3466G2532G3956G1108G2532G1437G2192G3956G4102G5620G3179G3735G1161G2192G3361G26G1510G3762 3If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.G2532G1437G5595G3956G3450G5224G5595G2532G1437G3860G3450G4983G2443G2545G1161G2192G3361G26G5623G3762 4Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head,G26G3114G5541G26G2206G3756G26G4068G3756G4068G5448G3756G5448 5Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,G807G3756G807G2212G3756G1438G3947G3756G3947G3049G3756G2556 6Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,G5463G3756G1909G93G1161G4796G225 7Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.G4722G3956G4100G3956G1679G3956G5278G3956 8Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit.G26G3763G1601G1161G1535G4394G2673G1535G1100G3973G1535G1108G2673 9We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.G1063G1097G1537G3313G2532G4395G1537G3313 10But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.G1161G3752G5046G2064G5119G1537G3313G2673 11When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.G3753G2252G3516G2980G5613G3516G5426G5613G3516G3049G5613G3516G1161G3753G1096G435G2673G3516 12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!G1063G737G991G1223G2072G1722G135G1161G5119G4383G4314G4383G737G1097G1537G3313G1161G5119G1921G2531G2532G1921 13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.G1161G3570G3306G4102G1680G26G5023G5140G1161G3187G5130G26


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