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and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass,
or a tinkling cymbal.2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though
I give my body to be burned, and have not charity,
it profiteth me nothing.
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Galatians 5:22-23New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
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and the greatest of these is love.
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5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world,
and the world hears them.
6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us;
he who is not of God does not hear us.
By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Knowing God Through Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone
who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us,
that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world,
that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and
sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Seeing God Through Love
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another,
God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us,
because He has given us of His Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:31Amplified Bible (AMP)
31 But earnestly desire and strive for the greater gift
[if acquiring them is going to be your goal].
And yet I will show you a still more excellent way
[one of the choicest graces and the highest of them all: unselfish love].
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”
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2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluat
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience]
that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
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Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
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Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”