What Love Is

August 30, 2026

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Jeremy Schambach - North Shore

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And

if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to

remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be

burned,

[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own

way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

7 Love

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it

will pass away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will

pass away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I

became a man, I gave up childish ways.

12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know

in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.


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