If I give everything
I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I
don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and
what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love
never gives up.
Love cares more for others
than for self.
Love doesn’t want what
it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled
head,
Doesn’t force itself on
others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the
handle,
Doesn’t keep score of
the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when
others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the
flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the
best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the
end.
1 Corinthians 13:3-7 The Message
