1 CORINTHIANS 13 FOR KIDS
If I speak beautifully and can sing like an angel, but don’t love others,
I sound like a child banging on a piano or a screeching radio.
If I am smart, almost a genius, if I can figure out the hardest math problems and understand sentence diagrams, but don’t love others, I am nothing.
Love will stand in line and wait its turn.
Love looks for the good in others.
Love doesn’t always want what others have and doesn’t brag about what it does have.
Love is polite, even when the other person is rude.
Love doesn’t always have to be first.
Love doesn’t get angry over the small things and it doesn’t remember one reason after another to be hurt.
Love isn’t happy when someone else fails but is happy with the truth.
Love always protects others, especially those who are picked on or teased.
Love always believes the best about others and is steady and true. Love never gives up.
Preaching will someday stop, so will speeches. Knowledge will come to end. Today we only know part of what there is to know. We can preach and speak only with a small part of understanding, but when perfection comes then what is imperfect will go away.
Now I am young and so I talk and think and speak like a child. When I become an adult I will put childish ways behind me. Now we see only a poor reflection, like in a mirror, then we will see face to face. Now I only know part of what there is to know; then I will know fully and will be fully known.
Only 3 things really matter in life:
Faith, Hope and Love
But the greatest of these is LOVE.
*From the NIrV Adventure Bible for Young Readers
