EXCELLENT
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And now I will show you the most excellent way.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but
have not love, I am a resounding gong or a clanging
cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom
all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith
that can move mountains, but have not love, I am
nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender
my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not
boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love
does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always
protects, always trusts, always trusts, always hopes, always
perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will
cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where
there is knowledge it will pass away. For we know in part
and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the
imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a
man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection
as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then
I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of
these is love.
(I. Corinthians 12.31b-13.1-13).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!