PrayerBits
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Wednesday
Scripture lesson: 1 Corinthians 13:1-8a The Love Chapter
Time to reflect: The classic love passage, 4-8a shouldn't be ripped from its context. The whole chapter is about how church people treat each other. The word “love” should really be “a sacrificial care and concern for others” but that is a bit cumbersomeT.
Moving through the day: Read this passage (and the rest of the chapter) applying it to your relationship with your church and the people in it.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
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