1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have aprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, bso as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 cIf I give away all I have, and dif I deliver up my body to be burned, ▼▼Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 fLove is patient and gkind; love hdoes not envy or boast; it iis not arrogant 5or rude. It jdoes not insist on its own way; it kis not irritable or resentful; ▼
▼Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing
6it mdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but nrejoices with the truth. 7 oLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, pendures all things. 8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For qwe know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but rwhen the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When 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. 12For snow we see in a mirror dimly, but tthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as uI have been fully known.
13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Ephesians 4:16
16 vfrom whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, wwhen each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
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