13:01 .. If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels .. but do not have love .. I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal 13:02 .. If I have the gift of prophecy .. and know all mysteries and all knowledge .. and if I have all faith .. ......... so as to remove mountains .. but do not have love .. I am nothing 13:03 .. and if I give all my possessions to feed the poor .. and if I surrender my body to be burned .. ......... but do not have love .. it profits me nothing
13:04 .. Love is patient .. love is kind and is not jealous .. love does not brag and is not arrogant 13:05 .. does not act unbecomingly .. it does not seek its own .. is not provoked .. does not take into account a wrong suffered 13:06 .. does not rejoice in unrighteousness .. but rejoices with the truth 13:07 .. bears all things .. believes all things .. hopes all things .. endures all things
13:08 .. love never fails .. but if there are gifts of prophecy .. they will be done away .. if there are tongues .. they will cease .. ......... if there is knowledge .. it will be done away 13:09 .. for we know in part and we prophesy in part 13:10 .. but when the perfect comes .. the partial will be done away 13:11 .. when I was a child .. I used to speak like a child .. think like a child .. reason like a child .. when I became a man .. ......... I did away with hildish things 13:12 .. for now we see in a mirror dimly .. but then face to face .. now I know in part .. ......... but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known 13:13 .. but now faith .. hope .. love .. abide these three .. but the greatest of these is love
Love alone can give value to any service rendered in Christ’s name .. and it is therefore the supreme gift of the Spirit .. to be coveted and prayed for above all others .. faith trusts and appropriates .. hope expects .. but love expresses Christ and blesses men . . . . Jesus Christ was the supreme expression of the love of God and his divine love and compassion is the gift of the Spirit to believers who will be yielded to him .. thinking of Jesus as “love” (for God is love) substitute the name Jesus in place of “charity” and notice the force of the text .. can you say “Christ liveth in me”