Greatest
Thing in the
World
By:
Henry Drummond
THE
GREATEST THING IN THE
WORLD
THOUGH I
speak with the tongues of men and
of angels, and have not love, I
am become as a sounding brass, or
a tinkling cymbal. 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 LOVE I am
nothing. And though I bestow all
my goods to feed the poor, and
though I give my body to be
burned, and have not Love, it
profiteth me nothing.
Love
suffereth long, and is
kind;
Love
envieth not;
Love
vaunteth not itself is not puffed
up,
Doth not
behave itself
unseemly,
Seeketh
not her own,
Is not
easily provoked,
Thinketh
no evil;
Rejoiceth
not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
the truth;
Beareth
all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all
things.
Love never
faileth: but whether there be
prophecies, they shall fail;
whether there be tongues, they
shall cease; whether there be
knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we
prophesy in part. But when that
which is perfect is come, then
that which is in part shall be
done away.
When I was
a child, I spake as a child, I
understood as a child, I thought
as a child: but when I became a
man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass,
darkly; but then face to face:
now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am
known. And now abideth faith,
hope, Love, these three; but the
greatest of these is Love.—I
Cor. xiii.
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