1- If could speak in any language in Heaven or on earth but didn't love others,
I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal.

2-If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future
and knew everything about everything,
but didn't love others, what good would I be?
And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain
and make it move,
without love I would be no good to anybody.

3- If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body,
I could boast about it;
but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.

4-Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful, or proud or rude.

5-Love does not demand its own way.
Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.

6-It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

7-Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful,
and endures through every circumstance.

8-Love will last forever,
but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages
and special knowledge will all disappear.

9-Now we know only a little,
and even the gift of prophecy reveals little!

10- But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear.

11-It's like this
When I was a child, I spoke & thought and reasoned as a child does.
But when I grew up, I put away childish things.

12-Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror,
but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.
All that I know now is partial and incomplete,
but then I will know everything completely,
just as God knows me now.

13-There are three things that will endure
- faith, hope and love -
and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13: 1-13
Means A Lot To Me
Because It's a way of Life my Dad thaught me.

Have Confidence In Yourself;
Hope There Always Will Be Justice;
Let LOVE Be Your Guide.

My Dad, whom I love deerly,
wrote this for my youngest daughter when she was born.
I'll always treasure it!

Thank's for this wise lesson Daddy....