Love never gives up,

never loses faith,

is always hopeful,

and endures through every circumstance.

1 Corinthians 13:7

Love is patient and kind.

Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.

It does not demand its own way.

It is not irritable,

and it keeps no record of being wronged.

It does not rejoice about injustice

but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

1 Corinthians 13:4-6

If I could speak all the languages

of earth and of angels,

but didn’t love others,

I would only be a noisy gong

or a clanging cymbal. 

If I had the gift of prophecy,

and if I understood all of God’s secret plans

and possessed all knowledge,

and if I had such faith that I could move mountains,

but didn’t love others,

I would be nothing.

If I gave everything I have to the poor

and even sacrificed my body,

I could boast about it,

but if I didn’t love others,

I would have gained nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

…For we are the temple of the living God.

As God said:

“I will live in them

and walk among them.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

2 Corinthians 6:16

For God says,

“At just the right time, I heard you.

On the day of salvation, I helped you.”

Indeed, the “right time” is now.

Today is the day of salvation.

2 Corinthians 6:2

…We speak for Christ when we plead,

“Come back to God!”

For God made Christ, who never sinned,

to be the offering for our sin,

so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:20-21

So we are always confident,

even though we know 

that as long as we live in these bodies

we are not at home with the Lord.

For we live by believing and not by seeing.

Yes, we are full confident,

and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies,

for then we will be at home with the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:6-8

So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now;

rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen.

For the things we see now will soon be gone,

but the things we cannot see will last forever.

2 Corinthians 4:18

…We were crushed and overwhelmed 

beyond our ability to endure,

and we thought we would never live through it.

In fact, we expected to die.

But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves

and learned to rely only on God,

who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 1:8-9

Be on guard.

Stand firm in the faith.

Be courageous.

Be strong.

And do everything in love.

1 Corinthians 16:13