1 Corinthians 12:31-14:1
View Full ChapterLove Is Indispensable 31And yet I will show you the most excellent way. 31Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
Love Is Indispensable 31And yet I will show you the most excellent way. 31Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
1If I speak in the tongues
3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,
7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Intelligibility in Worship 1Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy.