Jesus Is Love

My Rendition of I Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues on men and angels, but have not Jesus, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not Jesus, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but have not Jesus, I gain nothing. 

Jesus is patient, Jesus is kind.  Jesus does not envy, He does not boast, He is not proud.  Jesus does not dishonor others, He is not self-seeking, He is not easily angered, He keeps no record of wrongs.   Jesus does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Jesus always protects,   always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Jesus 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.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.  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 put the ways of childhood behind me.  For 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. 

John says:

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known.  But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.  – I John 3:2: