{"id":297,"date":"2009-10-07T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-07-09T19:46:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T02:46:36","slug":"the-greatest-gift-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Gift: Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1 Corinthians 13<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The Greatest Gift<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<sup>1<\/sup> Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. <sup>2<\/sup> And though I have <em>the gift of<\/em> 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. <sup>3<\/sup> And though I bestow all my goods to feed <em>the poor,<\/em> and though I give my body to be burned,<sup>[<a title=\"See footnote a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Corinthians+13&amp;version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28664a#fen-NKJV-28664a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup> but have not love, it profits me nothing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><sup>4<\/sup> Love suffers long <em>and<\/em> is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; <sup>5<\/sup> does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; <sup>6<\/sup> does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; <sup>7<\/sup> bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><sup>8<\/sup> Love never fails. But whether <em>there are<\/em> prophecies, they will fail; whether <em>there are<\/em> tongues, they will cease; whether <em>there is<\/em> knowledge, it will vanish away. <sup>9<\/sup> For we know in part and we prophesy in part. <sup>10<\/sup> But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><sup>11<\/sup> 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. <sup>12<\/sup> 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><sup>13<\/sup> And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these <em>is<\/em> love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">1 Corinthians 13:4\u00a0(New International Version)<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><sup>4<\/sup>Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 1 Corinthians 13 The Greatest Gift \u00a01 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedivinelove.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}