A few years ago, I was reading the following passage from 1 Corinthians 13. It has always been a favorite passage of mine, but this time I received a new revelation about the passage. 1 John 4:8 states that "God is love", so, below I added the word "God" in red text after every occurrence of the word "Love". I recommend reading it in the original text first then reading it in the red text afterward.
1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love (God), I have become sounding brass or a clanging 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, but have not love (God), I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love (God), it profits me nothing.4 Love (God) suffers long and is kind; love (God) does not envy; love (God) does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love (God) never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love (God), these three; but the greatest of these is love (God).
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