1 Corinthians 3 (Jesus Freak’s Translation)
1 If I evangelize, but do not have love, I am a medium that ruins a message. 2 If I have the gift of memorizing scripture verses and carry my Bible at all times and read it on my lunch break, and if I only own and listen to Christian music, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I am in emotional worship and give more than 10 percent for my tithe and don’t tell anyone, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud or self-righteous. 5 It does not gossip about others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs or rights. 6 Love does not delight in wealth but rejoices with the poor. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are testimonies, they will cease; where there are sermons, they will be silenced; where there are apologetics, they will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we preach in part, 10 but when completeness comes, we will be humbled. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. Now I’m an adult, but I struggle to put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as 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.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Tags: 1 Corinthians 3, Jesus Freak, love, parable, translation
07.23.2008 at 4:38 PM
Loving their neighbors…..
“As a fire threatened their home, a woman from our church, Mindy, and her husband were at their home frantically deciding what to pack and take with them because the fire department was preparing them for evacuation. As the fire got closer, she realized that her neighbors had gone camping and had no way of getting back in the neighborhood through the road blocks to get their cat out of their house or gather any valuables.
Mindy had tried to reach out to these neighbors and love them like Jesus would with little evidence that it was received so far. Mindy had their cell phone number and so she called and asked them how they could help. The neighbor replied, ‘I just KNEW YOU would call! I just KNEW YOU would help us!’
Mindy promised her neighbor that if the fire department required an evacuation they would take their cat and anything else they wanted out with them also. Her neighbor thanked Mindy with grateful sobs.
Through her tears, Mindy said to me, “I realized that my efforts to love them HAD made a difference.”
07.29.2008 at 12:20 AM
You had better write a book, you genius. It will be a scary read for those who do not wish to examine their hearts, question their methods, and re-think their faith.
08.15.2008 at 1:38 PM
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!