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The Power of Love

This passage is so powerful…

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have no love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, understand all mysteries and knowledge, and have all faith, to remove mountains,
but have not love, (then) I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned but have not love, I gain nothing.
(Why….????)
Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast;
it (Love) is not arrogant or rude.
It (Love) does not insist on its own way;
It (Love) is not irritable or resentful;
It (Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
(But that’s not all…..)
Love never ends.
As for prophecies, they will pass away;
as for tongues, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
(So I will repeat…Love never ends)
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.
For now, we see in a mirror dimly but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, (of) these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (Emphasis mine, words in ( ) are added by me, Bruce Mitchell)
Bruce Mitchell is a speaker, writer, and Bible teacher who loves to share God’s Word in everyday life. He has studied at Biola University and Dallas Theological Seminary. His blog (Allelon.us) is all about the principles of Agapao Allelon (Loving One Another) and God’s Mercy, Grace, Love, and Forgiveness and how it applies to our daily lives as Christ-Followers. (1 Peter 4:8)
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Bruce Mitchell 1 Corinthians 13, Bible Study

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