#ScriptureReflection - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (10.21.20)

 ¹ If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. ² And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; ³ If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, is not pompous, it is not inflated, ⁵ it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, ⁶ it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. 

⁷ It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

⁹ For we know partially and we prophesy partially, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes,the partial will pass away.

¹¹ When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. ¹² At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. 

¹³ So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

 

Source: NABRE (New American Bible Revised Edition)