love and truth

13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 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 do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love 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. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 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 the ways of childhood behind me. 12 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.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love 1 Cor 13

When I was in Kansas City a few weeks ago, I saw a sign on a church marquis that said something like, "love never comes at the expense of truth."  It made me sick to my stomach.  This is what you teach?  This is going to attract people to your church?

Truth is important, but love is more important.  Love embodies truth.  Too many people get truth confused with doctrine.  There are 33,000 protestant denominations.  Which one has the truth?  Love is not confusing.  Love is beautiful.  Love never hurts people.  "Truth" as some deliver it can be very hurtful.

We were not put on this earth to sort out every truth. We were put here on this earth to love.

"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 do not have love, I am nothing."

Someone has strained a gnat and swallowed a camel.

Love is the only thing that matters. Love first, everything else will follow.  Always choose love.

It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.

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