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Thursday, December 19th, 2024
the Third Week of Advent
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1 Corinthians 13

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The Way of Love

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have (a)prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, (b)so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 (c)If I give away all I have, and (d)if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 (e)Love is patient and (f)kind; love (g)does not envy or boast; it (h)is not arrogant 5 or rude. It (i)does not insist on its own way; it (j)is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it (k)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but (l)rejoices with the truth. 7 (m)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, (n)endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For (o)we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but (p)when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For (q)now we see in a mirror dimly, but (r)then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as (s)I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

 
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