Sunday 18 December 2011

'Love'...1 Corinthians

Love can be tough
Our search for it
Finding it
Giving it
Receiving it
Managing it
Understanding it
But once we know it and accept it
Be... love, do... love
Perhaps then, confusion ceases to be

For my Soulmate Sunday post today I wanted to share a verse ( from the bible) with you. Not because it's from the bible, but because I've always liked it; for it's beauty, and ability to comfort.. it is...

1 Corinthians

1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.


Brrrr..It's cold outside.. wrap up warm..Happy SMSx

2 comments:

  1. Dawna I have to say I like this Chapter very much...it's a popular quote during loving ceremonies. Verses 4 and 13 I love very much!!

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  2. So beautiful isn't it.. every verse a comfort!
    I resonate with 1 and 13..
    It's all meaningless without love

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