Instead of loving others, we choose to hurt, instead of loving others we choose to use, instead of loving others we choose to abuse…how’s that really working out for you?
“If I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God’s love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal” 1 Corinthians 13:1 (AMPC).
“If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate” 1 Corinthians 13:1 (MSG).
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” 1 Corinthians 13:1 KJV).
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal” 1 Corinthians 3:1 (ESV).
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and Angels, and have not love, I am as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” 1 Corinthians 13:1 (GNV).
Choose to love,…and begin with yourself.