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1 Corinthians 13 is one of the most well-known chapters in the entire Bible because it is read at so many weddings.

The passage is familiar to many people for how it describes love as patient and kind, and that it keeps no record of wrongs.

But these verses are not meant to be

used as a checklist for good behavior. Today, Tim Keller looks at the deeper meaning of this passage

and shows how it points us not to moral perfection, but to Christ and the transforming power of his love.

If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong

or clanging symbol.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, if I have

faith that can move mountains,

but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not

boast. It is not proud. It is not rude. It is not self-seeking. It's 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 whether 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 perfection comes, the imperfect 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 childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection is in a mirror.

Then we shall see face to face.

Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain, faith, hope, and love.

But the greatest of these is love.

Now we've been looking for several weeks, and we're going to continue to look at this,

the greatest passage in all of literature, probably, most famous passage, I should certainly say,

in all of literature on love.

And we saw the first three verses says it doesn't matter if you can do prophecies or miracles.

Love is the most important thing in the world.

Let me quote from, and this is an extremely interesting quote, from David Koresh.

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