Gifts without LOVE are useless...

1Co 13:1  If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1Co 13:2  If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing.
1Co 13:3  If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
1Co 13:4  Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
1Co 13:5  or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
1Co 13:6  It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
1Co 13:7  Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1Co 13:8  Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
1Co 13:9  Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
1Co 13:10  But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.
1Co 13:11  When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
1Co 13:12  Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
1Co 13:13  Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

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