1 Corinthians 13 “The Message” Translation:

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy
but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty
gate. If 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.
If 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.
Love 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,

Doesn’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,

Doesn’t revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always,

Always looks for the best,

Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some
day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will
reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and
what we say about God is always incomplete. But
when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be
canceled.
When 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.
We 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!
But 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.

John 13:34-35 New International Version

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I
have loved you, so you must love one another. By this
everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you
love one another.”