p. 1 | The Love of God

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 10, 1909

The Love of God

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, But have not Love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; And if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, But have not Love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, And if I give my body to be burned, But have not Love, It profiteth me nothing.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; Love envieth not; Love vaunteth not itself, Is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, Seeketh not its own, Is not provoked, Taketh not account of evil; Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, But rejoiceth with the truth; Beareth all things, Believeth all things, Hopeth all things, Endureth all things. Love never faileth:

But whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; Whether there be tongues, they shall cease; Whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; But when that which is perfect is come, That which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: Now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly; But then face to face: Now I know in part; But then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

But now abideth Faith, Hope, Love, These three; And the greatest of these is LOVE