Friday, February 14, 2014

The Greatest of These

I expected a much different focus in my earlier post, but the Lord had other plans. Still I wanted to share these verses with you today, so you get two blog posts! (Sort of.)

In I Corinthians 13, commonly called the "Love Chapter," Paul tells us what love is and why it is so important. As you read these words, please consider the truths presented and whether they apply currently to your life.
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
"Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. ...
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."

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