Paul's Teaching

Hi My friends,

Please consider Paul's teaching regarding love:

"1: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2: 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, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3: And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5: Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6: Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7: Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."

1 Corinthians 13:1-7

Paul's text is a graphic presentation of the characteristics of biblical love. He began by showing the utter futility of the absence of love. Regardless of the extent of the accomplishment or sacrifice, without love it is a wasted effort. When love is present, there is long suffering, kindness, rejoicing in the truth, bearing all things, believing, hoping, and enduring all things will then be seen. To the converse, there is no envy, egotism, improper conduct, selfishness, irritability, and thinking of evil.