N.T. in a year reading & study, verses R paraphrased [ ] references { } thots
☀️ 31 - And of course, the higher gifts are the more desirable. But I’ll tell you the most excellent way! 13 For if I should speak with a tongue of angels, but I don’t love, then I am just a noisy gong, or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and have all knowledge, or if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but have not love, I’m nothing! 3 If I give away all I have, if I die for the cause, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love doesn’t envy or boast. It’s not arrogant 5 or rude. It doesn’t insist on its own way. It’s not irritable or resentful. 6 It doesn’t rejoice at wrongdoings, but rejoices over the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails or passes away. As for prophecies, they pass away. As for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial and incomplete will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. {My mind wandered down many hallways.} When I became an adult, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see as through a glass dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know in full, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, expectation [elpis - expectation, trust, confidence, hope?] {Usually/always translated, hope a lesser degree of “expectation”/trust} and love abide. And of the three, the greatest of is love. {Faith, Trust, Love. — God is Love. Love hAs to rule, there’s no other option. Because God is Life. Some get all tangled up in the strictness of God. But life cannot be contaminated and remain life. And so, this entropy. The world persuaded us to toss out the scripture, thinking like a child. This life is but a moment. In crises, he carries. In formation ages he had to take out, like transplanting into an untilled garden, awaiting being resurrected into an “age of correction” (aionion kolasin / eonian korrection, Mt.25:46) the GWT judgment ‘day’ SEE the Autumn holy days of Lev.23, the names and pattern. And preflood society, was highly cannibaalistic perhaps? Learned it from animals, which some animals turned predator quickly? Their “covering” angels having joined the “covering angel over Eden” when he revolted? As God of course knew he would, indeed the way engineered, this Truth journey is a one and done for heaven and earth.. Perhaps I’m imaginative, but did God say after the flood that man should be carnivore, so they would not be prey instead? — No option to stray in Eden would be an Ant Farm? Instead the dis-ease as part of the cure? And immunity.. And the original blueprint still stands! Love, genuine affection, is going to - totally - rule. We can trust God’s 100% pure Goodness. “The lion will eat straw like the ox, and the bear will graze with the cow” Isaiah 11:7.}
4 Love is patient and kind. Love doesn’t envy or boast. It’s not arrogant 5 or rude. It doesn’t insist on its own way. It’s not irritable or resentful. 6 It doesn’t rejoice at wrongdoings, but rejoices over the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [“God is Love” 1Jn.4:8.] 8 (And) Love never fails..
Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 14:1-8
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