INTRO TO THE READING
Jody Helton, PMA
Reader: God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s
weakness is stronger than human strength. (1 Corinthians 1:25)
All: Let our faith not rest on human wisdom, but on the power of
God. (1 Corinthians 2:5)
SCRIPTURE READING
1 Corinthians 13:1-14:1a
The Gift of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have
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 do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I
give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may
boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or
arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it
keeps no record of wrongs; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but
rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for
tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For
we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part, 10 but when the
complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I
spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I
became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see only a
reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know
only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully
known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love remain, these three, and the
greatest of these is love.
Gifts of Prophecy and Tongues
1 Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts and especially that you may
prophesy.
Reader: Word of God. Word of life.
All: Thanks be to God.
