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.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Prophecy and Tongues

1 vPursue love, and wearnestly desire the xspiritual gifts, especially that you may yprophesy.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

12and may the Lord zmake you increase and abound in love aafor one another and for all, as we do for you,

1 Thessalonians 4:9-10

9Now concerning abbrotherly love acyou have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been adtaught by God aeto love one another, 10for that indeed is what afyou are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to agdo this more and more,

2 Thessalonians 1:3

Thanksgiving

3 ahWe ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers,
Or  brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to men or to both men and women who are siblings (brothers and sisters) in God’s family, the church
as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

1 Timothy 1:5

5The aim of our charge is love ajthat issues from a pure heart and aka good conscience and ala sincere faith.

Hebrews 13:1

Sacrifices Pleasing to God

1Let ambrotherly love continue.

1 Peter 1:22

22Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for ana sincere brotherly love, aolove one another earnestly from a pure heart,
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