The Greatest of These Is Love

December 8
I Corinthians, Chapter 13

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 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 love, I am nothing.
3 And though I give all I own to feed the poor, and though I give my body as a sacrifice for my faith, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love endures much and is kind; love envies not; love exalts not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, love thinks no evil;
6Love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails: but where there be prophecies, they shall fail; where there be tongues, they shall cease; where there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abides faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.