Love Never Fails!

February 10, 2009 by Usha Pisharody 24 Comments

For Love, because Love Never Fails. And also inspired by Solilo, and Indyeah 🙂

This day, I just want to share something a friend, whom I have never met, [but know to be a friend for the person I have come to know:)], had shared on this particular thought:

Love Never Fails.

He quoted from the Bible, that in itself, is self explanatory, and finds resonance in the true scriptures of all the different kinds of faith we follow. The simplest, sometimes the most complex and always the ONE thing that is the ONLY thing that keeps us HUMAN: Love.

From The Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13, Verses 1 – 13

1Co 13:1 What if I could speak all languages of humans and of angels? If I did not love others, I would be nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1Co 13:2 What if I could prophesy and understand all secrets and all knowledge? And what if I had faith that moved mountains? I would be nothing, unless I loved others.

1Co 13:3 What if I gave away all that I owned and let myself be burned alive? I would gain nothing, unless I loved others.

1Co 13:4 Love is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud, or rude.

1Co 13:5 Love isn’t selfish or quick tempered. It doesn’t keep a record of wrongs that others do.

1Co 13:6 Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil.

1Co 13:7 Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting.

1Co 13:8 Love never fails! Everyone who prophesies will stop, and unknown languages will no longer be spoken. All that we know will be forgotten.

1Co 13:9 We don’t know everything, and our prophecies are not complete.

1Co 13:10 But what is perfect will someday appear, and what isn’t perfect will then disappear.

1Co 13:11 When we were children, we thought and reasoned as children do. But when we grew up, we quit our childish ways.

1Co 13:12 Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture in a mirror. Later we will see him face to face. We don’t know everything, but then we will, just as God completely understands us.

1Co 13:13 For now there are faith, hope, and love. But of these three, the greatest is love.

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The King’s Bible, refers to Charity in place of Love, but as told to me, it is the reference to Love, in its entirety that Charity assays.

To paraphrase what is written above:

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I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.

I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains—but if I have no love, I am nothing.

I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned —but if I have no love, this does me no good.

Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;

Love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; Love does not keep a record of wrongs;

Love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.

Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.

Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass.

For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial;

but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.

When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways.

What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete—as complete as God’s knowledge of me.

Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.

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Never. Love never fails.

10 February, 2009