Lessons on Love from Paul

Posted by Brian Tubbs Feb 13, 2008

What better passage to read on Valentine's Day than the "Great Love Chapter" of the Bible: I Corinthians 13? In his letter to the church at Corinth, the Apostle Paul gave what is perhaps the best description of love ever penned by a human hand.

What follows is a portion of I Corinthians 13 - excerpted from the magisterial and eloquent King James Version:

1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2And 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, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8Charity never faileth...