ESV 1 Corinthians 12:31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
ESV John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
I prayed today with tears to obtain from God the gift of love for you and for me and to be holy.
ESV Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand
1 Corinthians 13English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)
The Way of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. [SUP]2 [/SUP]And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. [SUP]3 [/SUP]If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[SUP][[/SUP][SUP]a[/SUP][SUP]][/SUP] but have not love, I gain nothing.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant [SUP]5 [/SUP]or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[SUP][[/SUP][SUP]b[/SUP][SUP]][/SUP] [SUP]6 [/SUP]it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. [SUP]7 [/SUP]Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. [SUP]9 [/SUP]For we know in part and we prophesy in part, [SUP]10 [/SUP]but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. [SUP]11 [/SUP]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. [SUP]12 [/SUP]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.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
ESV John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
I prayed today with tears to obtain from God the gift of love for you and for me and to be holy.
ESV Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand
1 Corinthians 13English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)
The Way of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. [SUP]2 [/SUP]And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. [SUP]3 [/SUP]If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[SUP][[/SUP][SUP]a[/SUP][SUP]][/SUP] but have not love, I gain nothing.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant [SUP]5 [/SUP]or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[SUP][[/SUP][SUP]b[/SUP][SUP]][/SUP] [SUP]6 [/SUP]it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. [SUP]7 [/SUP]Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. [SUP]9 [/SUP]For we know in part and we prophesy in part, [SUP]10 [/SUP]but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. [SUP]11 [/SUP]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. [SUP]12 [/SUP]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.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.