Refrain:
All Love bears all things
and will never come to an end.
1 Love is patient and kind, ♦
love is not jealous or boastful,
it is not arrogant or rude.
2 Love does not insist on its own way, ♦
it is not angry or resentful.
3 It does not rejoice in wrongdoing ♦
but rejoices in the truth.
4 Love bears all things and believes all things; ♦
love hopes all things and endures all things.
5 Love will never come to an end, ♦
but prophecy will vanish,
tongues cease and knowledge pass away.
6 Now we know only in part ♦
and we prophesy only in part,
7 But when the perfect comes, ♦
the partial shall pass away.
8 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, ♦
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
9 But when I became mature, ♦
I put an end to childish ways.
10 For now we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror, ♦
but then we will see face to face.
11 Now I know only in part; ♦
then I shall know fully,
even as I have been fully known.
12 There are three things that last for ever,
faith, hope and love, ♦
but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13.4-13
All Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning is now
and shall be for ever. Amen.
All Love bears all things
and will never come to an end.
Common Worship: Daily Prayer, material from which is included here,
is copyright © The Archbishops' Council 2005 and published by Church House Publishing.
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