** And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. **

Date:   3/17/2018 9:16:32 PM ( 6 y ago)

Blessed are those who go to help a neighbor in need! This is part of the job of our Firefighters who so often without personal regard - place themselves in harm's way!
John 15:13 New King James Version (NKJV)

13 Greater love has no one than this than to lay down one’s life for his friends. { we could add family, neighbor, or as the Good Samaritan did for the wounded man on the road! } All of this is counted as love! 1 Corinthians 13 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Greatest Gift

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of 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. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11 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. 12 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.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 13:3 NU-Text reads so I may boast.

 

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