1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2. 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.
3. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
5. It is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6. It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
7. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
10. But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
11. 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 childish ways behind me.
12. Now we see but a poor 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.
13. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Corinthians 12:31-13:13
...then with this definition i never had loved. that's okay, if i had loved my fellow man, the way i knew, the way i want them to love me, then it's just like this love defined to me by the Bible :)
2. 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.
3. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
5. It is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6. It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
7. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
10. But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
11. 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 childish ways behind me.
12. Now we see but a poor 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.
13. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Corinthians 12:31-13:13
...then with this definition i never had loved. that's okay, if i had loved my fellow man, the way i knew, the way i want them to love me, then it's just like this love defined to me by the Bible :)
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and google on top has a nice caption of Valentines'08. terrific, don't you think?
