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1st Corinthians 13
Way of Love Course through Thy Body
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Way of Love course through Thy Body
Where the truth unstirred resides,
'Till Thy Spirit draws in service
Tender mercies wholly Thine
Gifts received from Thee are severed
From Thy graced utility
When our flesh engendered service
Yields its own futility
May we be abiding vessels,
Leaning not upon our own;
But as Peter walked on water,
Help our faith hold Thee alone
Truth and love abide forever;
We by faith move toward their source,
Reaching out but not attaining
'Till our race has run its course
Face to face we stand before Thee
When the end of faith and hope
Will reveal to each their profit,
Of Thy love through them made known
Words: 2016 by Stephen Popovich
Music: Rathbun 1849 by Ithamar Conkey
1st Corinthians 13
(1)Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, 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, I am nothing. (3)And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Way of Love course through Thy Body
Where the truth unstirred resides,
'Till Thy Spirit draws in service
Tender mercies wholly Thine
Gifts received from Thee are severed
From Thy graced utility
When our flesh engendered service
Yields its own futility
(4)Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love 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.
May we be abiding vessels,
Leaning not upon our own;
But as Peter walked on water,
Help our faith hold Thee alone
(8)Love 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, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Truth and love abide forever;
We by faith move toward their source,
Reaching out but not attaining
'Till our race has run its course
Face to face we stand before Thee
When the end of faith and hope
Will reveal to each their profit,
Of Thy love through them made known
© 2016 by Steve Popovich