Worship, word, and a prophecy

 

“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

-John 13:34-5

If I speak human or angelic tongues 

but do not have love, 

I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 

If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains 

but do not have love, I am nothing. 

And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast 

but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, 

love is kind. 

Love does not envy, 

is not boastful, 

is not arrogant, 

is not rude, 

is not self-seeking, 

is not irritable, 

and does not keep a record of wrongs. 

Love finds no joy in unrighteousness 

but rejoices in the truth. 

It bears all things, 

believes all things, 

hopes all things, 

endures all things.

Love never ends. 

But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. 

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. 

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known. 

Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love—but the greatest of these is love.

Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and especially that you may prophesy.

-1 Corinthians 13 and 14:1