(1) If I speak in the tongues 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, but do not have LOVE, I gain nothing. (4) LOVE is patient, LOVE is kind, LOVE does not envy, LOVE does not boast, LOVE is not proud. (5) LOVE does not dishonor others, LOVE is not self-seeking, LOVE is not easily angered, LOVE keeps no record of wrongs. (6) LOVE does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. (7) LOVE 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.
-- 1 Corinthians 13
(8) But anyone who does not love does not know God — for GOD is LOVE. -- 1 John 4:8 (NIV)
If "GOD" is "LOVE", then reread aloud "The LOVE Chapter" above (1 Corinthians 13), making one word change. Everywhere you see the word "LOVE" replace it with the word "GOD". Trust me. It's an amazing exercise for your soul, yes, listening to "The LOVE Chapter" transform into "The GOD Chapter" right before your very ears.
The Greatest of these is GOD! For GOD is LOVE!
Grateful
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Amazing PK...GOD is good, all the time.
Amazing LOVE/GOD, how can it be? That Thou my LOVE/GOD shouldst die for me!
1 John 4:7-10:
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who
loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know
God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his
one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not
that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice
for our sins.
That's a great idea. Thanks.
OUR GOD IS LOVE! John 3:16-17 is PROOF #1.
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