I believe that our true motive for sharing truth and teaching others matters very much.... (and I cannot say that my motive when opening my mouth has always been pure), but I believe it is more pure now than it ever has been.
The Excellence of Love
1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have
the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3And if I give all my possessions to feed
the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind
and is not jealous; love does not brag
and is not arrogant,
5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong
suffered, 6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails; but if
there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if
there are tongues, they will cease; if
there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
13But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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