Love is the greatest of all the emotions with our Living God the greatest example of pure Love.
1 Corinthians 13:4. Love has patience, love is kind, not jealous, Love does not boast, it is not proud, 5. it does not dishonor, it does not seek things for itself, it does not become angry, it does not charge evil to another, 6. it does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices together in truth: 7. it endures all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it is steadfast in all things. 8. And whether prophecies will be abolished: or tongues will cease: or knowledge will be abolished: Love never perishes. 9. We know in part and we prophesy in part: 10. but when the perfect state that is to be ushered in by the return of Messiah, would come, what is in part will be set aside. 11. When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking as a child, I was reasoning as a child: when I became a man, I did away with the things of the child. 12. For we are seeing through a mirror dimly, but then face to face: even now I know in part, but then I shall know thoroughly just as I have been known. 13. And now these three remain, faith, hope, love: and the greatest of these is Love.
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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.
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