{"id":2642,"date":"2012-02-08T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2012-02-08T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:04:15","slug":"what-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2012\/02\/what-is-love.html","title":{"rendered":"What Is Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While you’re crafting your love stories<\/a>, it’s a good time to pause and think about what love really is. I’ve never found a better explanation than 1 Corinthians 13. The Message Bible has a translation that truly gets to the core of what love is all about. Enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Message (MSG)
\n1 Corinthians 13
\n

The Way of Love<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 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. 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.<\/p>\n

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

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