Love Defined

The Love of God - Mercy Me (With Lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWnvmKoLWUU

28 Beautiful Words for Love from Around the World – 

and Their Literal Translations into English

https://www.fluentin3months.com/words-for-love/

1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 LOVE (Biblically) Defined 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-V3c6FonSc

Love is Patient, Love is Kind

St. Paul wasn't so bad. He nailed it here.

Dedicated to my niece Antoinette and her new husband Brett. The audacity of hope.

The Wedding Song, Paul Stookey, Original Audio Recording in 1970 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IrCeP5slxw
 

He is now to be among you at the calling of your hearts
Rest assured this troubadour is acting on His part
The union of your spirits, here, has caused Him to remain
For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name
There is love, there is love

A man shall leave his mother and a woman leave her home
And they shall travel on to where the two shall be as one
As it was in the beginning is now and 'til the end
Woman draws her life from man and gives it back again
And there is Love, there is love

Well then what's to be the reason for becoming man and wife?
Is it love that brings you here or love that brings you life?
And if loving is the answer then who's the giving for?
Do you believe in something that you've never seen before?
Oh there's love, there is love

Oh, the marriage of your spirits here has caused Him to remain
For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name
There is love, there is love

Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind

Love Grows, Emalisa Mudle

 

1 Corinthians 13 (The Message)

The Way of Love

13 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

² If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
^3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

^8-10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

¹¹ When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
¹² We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
¹³ But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

 Its nice to hear it, too.

I Corinthians 13 - Alexander Scourby(KJV)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-MwyRhPjmI 

Love is Patient, Love is Kind

St. Paul wasn't so bad. He nailed it here.

Dedicated to my niece Antoinette and her new husband Brett. The audacity of hope.

The Wedding Song, Paul Stookey, Original Audio Recording in 1970 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IrCeP5slxw