04/19/2025
If I don’t have love, it’s no use speaking all the languages of the world, and even the language of angels. If I don’t have love, I’m like a noisy piece of metal; I’m like a failed bell!
2 If I don’t have love, it’s no use speaking in God’s name and knowing his secret plans. It’s no use to me that my trust in God makes me move mountains.
3 If I don’t have love, it’s useless to give the poor everything I have. It didn’t help me to dedicate myself body and soul to helping others.
4 He who loves has patience in everything, and is always kind.
He who loves is not envious, nor does he believe more than anyone else.
He’s not proud.
5 He is not rude or selfish.
He doesn’t get angry about anything.
He doesn’t spend his life remembering how bad others have done to him.
6 They do not applaud the wicked, but those who speak with the truth.
7 He who loves is able to endure everything, to believe everything, to hope for everything, to endure everything.
8 Only love lives forever. The day will come when no one speaks in the name of God, nor speaks in strange languages, nor is it necessary to know God’s secret plans. 9 Prophecies, and everything we know now, is imperfect. 10 When what is perfect arrives, everything else will be over.
11 I was once a child. And my way of speaking, my way of understanding things and my way of thinking were those of a child. But now I’m an adult, and I’ve left all that behind. 12 Now we know God in a not very clear way, like when we see our image reflected in a dark mirror. Now I know him imperfectly; but when everything is perfect, I will be able to meet him as he knows me.
13 There are three things that are permanent: trust in God, the certainty that he will fulfill his promises and love. Of these three things, the most important is love.