![]() ![]() Spiritual characteristics-prophecy, speaking in tongues, religious training and knowledge-will come and go they will last at best no longer than the span of a human life. Paul here makes it crystal clear that even his own missionary work is meaningless if it is not being carried out in an energy of love. We are all one with God, expressions of the divine, and the nature of the divinity we share is love. This beautiful chapter represents a ringing affirmation that love is not an obligation to be fulfilled or a goal to be achieved. But keeping in mind your request for assistance in getting through each day, let me focus on one especially powerful chapter in that letter. The entirety of 1 Corinthians is more than I can cover in one reply. Question:Ĭan you provide anything that will help me through my day with children, love, family, etc.? Comment: And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three and the greatest of these is love. Now I know only in part then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. 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 we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. ![]() 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. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 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. ![]() Love is patient love is kind love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. 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. 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 speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ![]()
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