Charity (LOVE)
Paraphrased by Me
Although I speak with tongues
of men and of angels, and have not love, the sound of my voice is as meaningless as a
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Although I have the gift of
prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and have all knowledge. Even if I have
all faith, so that I can remove mountains, and do
not have love, I am nothing.
Although I give all my goods to
feed the poor, and I give my body to be burned, and do
not have love, it profits me
nothing.
Love suffers long, and is kind, it does not envy, does
not vault itself up, or get puffed up. Love
does not behave unseemly, does not seek glory, is not easily provoked, thinks
no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes
all things, and endures all things. Love never fails.
But where there is prophecies
they shall fail, and where there is tongues, they shall cease, where there is knowledge,
it shall vanish away, for we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when
that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away
with.
When I was a child, I behaved
as a child, and understood as a child, but when I became an adult, I put away
childish things.
For now we see through a glass
that is dark, but then, we will see clearly as face to face, now I know in
part, but then, I shall know even as I am also known.
But for now abides faith, hope,
and love, but the greatest of these three is LOVE.
· Used
the word love in place of charity.
· Charity
– brotherly love, love, good will, affection, love feasts.
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