If I Have Not Love

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8. If I have not love: ( 1 Corinthians 13)

I wrote this a song especially for my son’s wedding, and sang it at the ceremony.

What better advice could I give them than this famous passage from scripture?

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Though I speak in tongues of angels,

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And of men but have not love.

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I will be a clanging cymbal,

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I will be a sounding gong.

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If I have not love.

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If I have not love

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If I have not love

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I am nothing.

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I may fathom every mystery

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Always give a reason ‘why’

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I may have the gift of ‘knowledge’

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I may even prophesy… (chorus)

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Though my faith can move a mountain,

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Though I give my wealth away,

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Lift my hands up in surrender

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Give my body to the flames… (chorus)

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Love is patient, love is kind.

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Does not envy does not boast

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It’s not proud , it is not rude

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Doesn’t love itself the most

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Love is not so quick to anger

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Keeps no record of a wrong

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It does not delight in evil

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But in truth, bursts into song… (chorus)

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Love protects and trusts and hopes and

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Perseveres and stays the same

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Three things here will stay forever

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There are three things that remain ~

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Faith and Hope and Love forever

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All are given from above

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But the one beyond all others

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And the greatest one of all ~ is Love.