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1 Cor 13:1-13
1 "...If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love,
I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries
and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but
do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so
that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not
pompous, it is not inflated,
5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not
quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the
Truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.
8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought
to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be
brought to nothing.
9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child,
reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish
things.
12 At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to
face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am
fully known.
13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of
these is love..."
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Psalm 139:13-14
13 "...For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my
mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your
works are wonderful..."
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Matthew 25:31-46
The Sheep and the Goats
31 "...When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels
with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.
32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will
separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the
sheep from the goats.
33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his
left.
34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who
are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom
prepared for you since the creation of the world.
35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you
invited me in,
36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked
after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
37 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you
hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to
drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?
39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit
you?'
40 "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did
for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for
me.'
41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who
are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
angels.
42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me nothing to drink,
43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes
and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not
look after me.'
44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and
did not help you?'
45 "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do
for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous
to eternal life..."
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Jude 1:8-11
8 In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies,
reject authority and slander celestial beings.
9 But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the
devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous
accusation against him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"
10 Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not
understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like
unreasoning animals -- these are the very things that destroy
them.
11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed
for profit into Balaam's error; they have been destroyed in Korah's
rebellion.