My Version of 1 Corinthians 13
If I can play sports really well but do not have love, I am only a wealthy athlete. 2 If I have the gift of music and can play difficult piano songs will ease and grace, and if I have a voice that can carry far, but do not have love, I am nobody. 3 If I give away everything I own and love, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is friendly, love is a smile. It does not fight with siblings, it does not lie, it is not jealous. 5 Love does not hate, it is not annoying, it is not boastful, it keeps no lists of “I told you so”s. 6 Love does not delight in pride but rejoices with humility.7 Love always cleans up after itself, always thinks of other’s feelings, always does what it is told, always is responsible.
8 Love never relents. But where there are promises, they will be broken; where there are high-tech electronics, they will die; where there is money, it will perish. 9 For we always think we have it all, 10 but when God shows us what is real, we turn our priorities toward him.
11 When I was child I played like a child, I had the patience of a child. When I became a man (woman), I outgrew the ways of my childhood. 12 For now we see only a picture; then we will see the real thing. Now I know more about God; then I will know even more, even as I am known by God completely.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.