1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If you give everything to God and put on an awesome show for him, but do not love him, then it is all for nothing. You can pick apart the bible and twist little verses and make yourself seem righteous and holy, but that isn’t what matters to God. What matters is if you have love for Him. That is the importance of love. 2If 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 love, I am nothing. Faith without love is nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, I gain nothing. Sacrifice without love is nothing. These first three verses explain how important love is, but then it goes on to explain what exactly love is.
4Love is patient, love is kind. Patient love is love that requires nothing in return. It is love that keeps giving and giving, not expecting anything in return because it is patient enough to wait forever. Other translations will say that love is long suffering, which is the same as patience, except it describes how you will feel when you love someone who doesn’t love you in return, or someone who disappoints you. Jesus exhibited this kind of love when he died on the cross in front of a crowd of people he had come to save. God’s love is patient, and although we disappoint him he loves us still. True love is patient. Hand in hand with this patience is kindness. Because love is patient, it is also kind…. It does not envy, Love does not envy. Love will be two people supporting each other in all of their decisions. It is happy for others when they succeed and get something that makes them happy. it does not boast, it is not proud. True love doesn’t parade and put itself on show. It doesn’t go around being conceited and thinking it is better than others. It just is because it is. Pride and love do not coexist. Because love is not proud, it is humble and modest. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, Because love is kind, it can’t be rude. It is allowing itself to be hurt and allows others to be happy at its own expense. It isn’t seeking to make yourself happy, but it seeks to make others happy. it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. True love doesn’t become angry easily. It won’t count up how many times one has been wronged. God loves us and thankfully does not count our sins but tells us he will forget them and throw them as far as the east is from the west. That is true love. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love isn’t happy when it finds out someone has their heart broken or someone is sad or if you get something you want that God doesn’t want. Love rejoices when the right thing is done. Love rejoices with truth and strives to see that people will understand it. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love will always defend others from harm, whether they deserve it or not. Love is to stop gossip and denounce it before it harms anyone. Love trusts without cause. If your heart is broken because you trusted someone you shouldn’t have, it doesn’t mean to close yourself off, because in order to love you must trust. With love, hope is never lost. Love NEVER gives up no matter the circumstance.
8Love never fails. True love, the true love that God created, NEVER fails. No matter what. It’s always there. God will always love you. True love is giving when you don’t have anything left to give. True love is trusting and hoping when there is no reason to hope left. Love always perseveres and will not give up even when everyone else has lost hope. True love is pure and does not exist without God.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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