DAY THIRTY-THREE – Friday, March 26, 2021
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Even before opening my bible I was pretty sure I knew this passage. It’s one of the words of scripture we recognize like the 23rd Psalm. You often hear it read at weddings.
Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth to encourage and guide them in their faith journey. Each chapter could be a mini sermon.
LOVE-- Paul lists all the things Love is and is not! Quite a list and not always easy to follow. As human beings all we can do is try our best.
A quote that comes to mind is “Love Your Neighbour as Yourself!” Neighbour in our modern world extends to all, whether next door or across the world. The final verse sums up the passage: Faith, Hope and Love; and the greatest of these is LOVE.
Eleanor Bailey
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Even before opening my bible I was pretty sure I knew this passage. It’s one of the words of scripture we recognize like the 23rd Psalm. You often hear it read at weddings.
Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth to encourage and guide them in their faith journey. Each chapter could be a mini sermon.
LOVE-- Paul lists all the things Love is and is not! Quite a list and not always easy to follow. As human beings all we can do is try our best.
A quote that comes to mind is “Love Your Neighbour as Yourself!” Neighbour in our modern world extends to all, whether next door or across the world. The final verse sums up the passage: Faith, Hope and Love; and the greatest of these is LOVE.
Eleanor Bailey
