Scripture Reading Sunday, January 31, 2016

Our Epistle Lesson comes from First Corinthians 13:1-13

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a

noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and

understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to

remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3

possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have

love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or

rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6

rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7

things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 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. 9 For we

know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete

comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a

child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I

put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we

will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I

have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and

the greatest of these is love.

If I give away all my

it does not

It bears all things, believes all

THE WORD OF GOD FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD!