When I saw this meme today first on “Twitter” then
on Facebook I immediately thought of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians.
“If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have
love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of
prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so
as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I
hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is
not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own
interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not
rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be
brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be
brought to nothing. For we know
partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial
will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a
child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a
mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know
fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the
greatest of these is love.”Corinthians 13: 1-13
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