1Corinthians 13:6 - Prayer Tents



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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.G1437G2980G1100G444G2532G32G1161G2192G3361G26G1096G2278G5475G2228G214G29502If 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.G2532G1437G2192G4394G2532G1492G3956G3466G2532G3956G1108G2532G1437G2192G3956G4102G5620G3179G3735G1161G2192G3361G26G1510G37623If 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.G2532G1437G5595G3956G3450G5224G5595G2532G1437G3860G3450G4983G2443G2545G1161G2192G3361G26G5623G37624Love 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,G26G3114G5541G26G2206G3756G26G4068G3756G4068G5448G3756G54485Doesn'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,G807G3756G807G2212G3756G1438G3947G3756G3947G3049G3756G25566Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,G5463G3756G1909G93G1161G4796G2257Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.G4722G3956G4100G3956G1679G3956G5278G39568Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit.G26G3763G1601G1161G1535G4394G2673G1535G1100G3973G1535G1108G26739We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.G1063G1097G1537G3313G2532G4395G1537G331310But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.G1161G3752G5046G2064G5119G1537G3313G267311When 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.G3753G2252G3516G2980G5613G3516G5426G5613G3516G3049G5613G3516G1161G3753G1096G435G2673G351612We 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!G1063G737G991G1223G2072G1722G135G1161G5119G4383G4314G4383G737G1097G1537G3313G1161G5119G1921G2531G2532G192113But 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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