There Is No Valentine Like God

God Is Love.

Whoever does not love

does not know God,

because God is love.

1 John 4:8

A very short definition of God is that He is love. But what is love? Love is patient, love is kind...and a whole lot more. 1 Corinthians 13, commonly called the love chapter, gives us a definition of love. This passage also gives us a description of God.

It's no surprise we are given a definition of love in the Bible. We humans are really messed up when we say bad is good and good is bad. It's no wonder we need clarity! And reminding. 
(By the way, bad can't be good and good can't be bad.)


The Word of God is authority. It is the standard. It is accurate. It is what everything will be measured against.

Here is 1 Corinthians 13 (with a sentence from 1 Corinthians 12:31 at the beginning):

And now I will show you the most excellent way.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,

but have not love,

I am only a resounding gong or clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries

and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains,

but have not love,

I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender

my body to the flames,

but have not love,

I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. 

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,

it keeps no record of wrongs. 

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. 

But where there are prophecies, they will cease;

where there are tongues, they will be stilled;

where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

When I was a child, I talked like a child,

I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

Now we see but a poor reflection;

then we shall see face to face.

Now I know in part; then I shall know fully,

even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain:

faith, hope and love.

But the greatest of these is love. 

Choose the most excellent way...Love!