If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal, all the time.
If I have the gift of speaking, prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing, all the time.
If I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing, ever.
Love is patient, all the time.
Love is kind, all the time.
Love does not envy, ever.
Love is not boastful, ever.
Love is not arrogant, ever.
Love is not rude, ever.
Love is not self-seeking, ever.
Love is not irritable, ever.
Love does not keep a record of wrongs, ever.
Love finds no joy in unrighteousness, ever.
Love rejoices in the truth, all the time.
Love bears all things, all the time.
Love believes all things, all the time.
Love hopes all things, all the time.
Love endures all things, all the time.
Love never ends, ever.
Father, we know for now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but later we will see You face to face because of Your love for us, exhibited on the Cross. Teach us this love, even as You have described here.
“Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known (by God Himself). Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love — but the greatest of these is love” — all the time. The law of Christ Himself is love, all the time. “He must increase, but I must decrease” (allowing His love to rule). Let Him rule. Love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13, Galatians 6:2, Matthew 22:37-39, John 3:30 CSB
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