We have made 1 Corinthians 13 into a wedding reading. Paul wrote it to people in a church fight. Not people in love — people in conflict, jockeying for status, eating communion bread while others went hungry. Every descriptor in verse 4 is a behavior, not a feeling. Patient. Kind. Not envious. Not boastful. Not proud. Five choices. None of them romantic. All of them available to you today, in the next conversation you have, with the next person who tests you. This is what love looks like when Christ is the source of it.
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