# 367 – Love Never Fails
I John 4:7-18, Matthew 25:46, Matthew 5:43-48, Lev. 19:18,
Matthew 5:1-15, John 13:33-34, Luke 7:9, Luke 7:36-50, I Cor. 13:1-13
I CORINTHIANS 13 WT 367
From The Working Translation*
1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of [divine] messengers but do not have love, then I have become a sounding brass gong or a clanging cymbal.
2. If I have prophecy and I know all the mysteries and all the knowledge and if I have all the believing so as to remove mountains but do not have love, then I am nothing.
3. If I give all my goods to feed others and if I give my body to be burned but do not have love, then it profits me nothing.
4. The love is long-suffering. It is kind. The love is not envious. The love is not a braggart. It is not puffed up [with pride].
5. It does not behave itself dishonorably. It does not seek its own benefit. It is not easily upset. It does not consider evil.
6. It does not rejoice in injustice, but it rejoices in the truth.
7. It covers all things. It believes all things. It hopes all things. It endures all things.
8. The love never falls down. However, prophecies will be made inactive, tongues will cease, and knowledge will be made inactive.
9. Surely we know in part, and we prophesy in part,
10. But when that which is mature comes, then that which is in part will be made inactive.
11. When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. When I did become a man, I did, in fact, lay aside the things of the infant.
12. Thus we now see in a mirror [made of metal] in obscurity, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then shall I know fully even as I also was fully known.
13. However, there now abides believing, hope, love; these three, and the greatest of these is the love.
*From the Working Translation, A Journey through the Acts and Epistles,
Copyright © 2006 by Walter J. Cummins. All rights reserved.
