How does your love
hit or miss the mark?
Paul described love in fifteen short lines. Which ones are already yours?
- 48Questions
- 7Parts of love
- 15mTo take
the fifteen lines
- 1Love is patient
- 2Love is kind
- 3It does not envy
- 4It does not boast
- 5It is not proud
- 6It is not rude
- 7It is not self-seeking
- 8It is not easily angered
- 9It keeps no account of wrongs
- 10Love takes no pleasure in evil
- 11But rejoices in the truth
- 12It bears all things
- 13Believes all things
- 14Hopes all things
- 15Endures all things
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Read with John Chrysostom He preached on these lines in Antioch more than 1,600 years ago, and saw what most readers miss: patience can be used to punish, and believing the best of someone starts before any wrong is done.
His pageHow to answer
- Picture the last time
Each question is a moment with a friend, your family or someone at work. Pick what you would actually do.
- See the shape of your love
How much of each of the seven parts of Paul’s picture you already live.
- Fill the gaps
Steps you can take this week, from Scripture and the early Church.
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