Thematic Bible: The attributes of charity
Thematic Bible
Charity » The attributes of charity
Now about the foods that have been sacrificed to idols: We know that every one of us has some knowledge of the matter. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride; It does not act with rudeness, or insist upon its rights; it never gets provoked, it never harbors evil thoughts; Is never glad when wrong is done, but always glad when truth prevails; read more.
It bears up under anything; it exercises faith in everything; it keeps up hope in everything; it gives us power to endure in anything. Love never fails; if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if now exist ecstatic speakings, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will soon be set aside; For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete. But when perfection comes, what is imperfect will be set aside. When 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 laid aside my childish ways. For now we see a dim reflection in a looking-glass. But then we shall see face to face; Now what I know is imperfect, but then I shall know perfectly, as God knows me. And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.
It bears up under anything; it exercises faith in everything; it keeps up hope in everything; it gives us power to endure in anything. Love never fails; if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if now exist ecstatic speakings, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will soon be set aside; For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete. But when perfection comes, what is imperfect will be set aside. When 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 laid aside my childish ways. For now we see a dim reflection in a looking-glass. But then we shall see face to face; Now what I know is imperfect, but then I shall know perfectly, as God knows me. And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.
But the end of everything on earth is near. So be serious and sober minded, that you may give yourselves to prayer. Above everything else keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers up a multitude of sins. Be ungrudgingly hospitable to one another.