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If I speak in the tongues\xa0of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.\xa0If I have the gift of prophecy\xa0and can fathom all mysteries\xa0and all knowledge,\xa0and if I have a faith\xa0that can move mountains,\xa0but do not have love, I am nothing.\xa0If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,\xa0but do not have love, I gain nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3(NIV)

1. Self-Awareness

Love is patient,\xa0love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.\xa0It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,\xa0it is not easily angered,\xa0it keeps no record of wrongs.\xa0Love does not delight in evil\xa0but rejoices with the truth.\xa0It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7(NIV)

1. Shared Values

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,\xa0they will cease; where there are tongues,\xa0they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.\xa01 Corinthians 13:8 (NIV)\xa0

1. Commitment to Longevity

For we know in part\xa0and we prophesy in part,\xa0but when completeness comes,\xa0what is in part disappears.\xa0When 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 the ways of childhood\xa0behind me.\xa01 Corinthians 13:9-12 (NIV)

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;\xa0then we shall see face to face.\xa0Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:9-12 (NIV)\xa0

1. Room to grow

But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 (MSG)

1. Extravagant Love

Love is not a feeling that determines our actions\u2026 but a choice that leads our feelings.