Wednesday, September 4, 2013

In Love of God

  "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. " This is the first commandment.
  "And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
MARK 12:30,33

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The Greatest Gift

  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a changing cymbal.
  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
  Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
  does not behave rudely does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
  does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  Love never fails. But, whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
  For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
  But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
  When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
  And now adide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-13