The Bible Study podcast, episode 311. Today, the Bible Study podcast does part two in a series on marriage.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. I want to look at two different

passages from the Bible today. We're going to look at two passages both written by Paul.

One is the one you think about for marriage and one is the one he actually wrote about marriage.

Let's start the one that we think about. If you were a Christian at the time you were married,

it is quite likely that the verse or one of the verses

you had read at your wedding was this, 1 Corinthians 13. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels,

but I do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol. If I have the gift of

prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a

faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the

poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind, It does not envy. It does not

boast. It is not proud. It does not dishonor others. It is not self-seeking. It is not easily

angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

But where there are prophecies, they will cease, where there are tongues they will be stilled,

where there is knowledge it will pass away, for we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror.

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