The Greatest Gift

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We are not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or any other “12 Step” program.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="heading passage-class-0" style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"> <h3 style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"> 1 Corinthians 13</h3> <div class="txt-sm" style="font-size: 12px;"> New King James Version (NKJV)</div> </div> <div class="passage version-NKJV result-text-style-normal text-html " style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <h3 style="background-color: white; font-size: 1.05em;"> <span class="text 1Cor-13-1" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">13 </span>Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. </span><span class="text 1Cor-13-2" id="en-NKJV-28668" style="font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">2 </sup>And though I have <i>the gift of</i> prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. </span><span class="text 1Cor-13-3" id="en-NKJV-28669" style="font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">3 </sup>And though I bestow all my goods to feed <i>the poor,</i> and though I give my body to be burned,<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; vertical-align: top;" value="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28669a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28669a" style="color: #b37162; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup> but have not love, it profits me nothing.</span></h3> <div style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> <span class="text 1Cor-13-4" id="en-NKJV-28670"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">4 </sup>Love suffers long <i>and</i> is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; </span><span class="text 1Cor-13-5" id="en-NKJV-28671"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">5 </sup>does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; </span><span class="text 1Cor-13-6" id="en-NKJV-28672"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">6 </sup>does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; </span><span class="text 1Cor-13-7" id="en-NKJV-28673"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">7 </sup>bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> <span class="text 1Cor-13-8" id="en-NKJV-28674"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>Love never fails. But whether <i>there are</i> prophecies, they will fail; whether <i>there are</i>tongues, they will cease; whether <i>there is</i> knowledge, it will vanish away. </span><span class="text 1Cor-13-9" id="en-NKJV-28675"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>For we know in part and we prophesy in part. </span><span class="text 1Cor-13-10" id="en-NKJV-28676"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">10 </sup>But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> <span class="text 1Cor-13-11" id="en-NKJV-28677"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">11 </sup>When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. </span><span class="text 1Cor-13-12" id="en-NKJV-28678"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">12 </sup>For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> <span class="text 1Cor-13-13" id="en-NKJV-28679"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">13 </sup>And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these <i>is</i> love.</span></div> <div> <span class="text 1Cor-13-13"><br /></span></div> </div> <br /> <div class="zemanta-related" style="margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/early-aas-achieved-documented-75-93.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/111632197_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/early-aas-achieved-documented-75-93.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">early AAs achieved a documented 75%-93% success rate among seemingly-hopeless, "medically incurable," real alcoholics</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/step-1-we-admitted-we-were-powerless.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.zemanta.com/112362657_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/step-1-we-admitted-we-were-powerless.html" style="display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Step 1. 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