The Way Of Love

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;' — read the full passage →

for he who is speaking in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue--to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; — read the full passage →

`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during; — read the full passage →

and if any one is ignorant--let him be ignorant;

this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die. — read the full passage →

`But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon the earth to forgive sins--(then saith he to the paralytic) --having risen, take up thy couch, and go to thy house.' — read the full passage →

For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; — read the full passage →

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

Unto whom He hath said, `This <FI>is<Fi> the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this--the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,

If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,