Love is patient. Love is kind.

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Saddest Tramp Stamp

Style Buzz Also, longest and most misguided. For bonus fun, spot the grammatical error.

My comments: The young ladies of today just want to communicate. That’s OK. And they’re doing it their way. And now instead of catching a quick glimpse of a sassy line or two across the breasts on an old T-shirt (that’s so 70’s-80’s) they’re putting how they feel out in public— on their butts. And with the low-slung pants and bare midriffs still being in style, it turns out that there is quite a bit of ad space to fill.

This young lady thinks a lot about love and wants to share some Bible verses on the topic with those who, uh, may get close to her. I’ve already fantasized someone standing behind her in line, say at a supermarket or a bank. “Uh, pardon me, miss, I’ve just read your lovely verse. Would you mind showing me which book of the Bible that is from?” And then she lowers her jeans even more, and maybe true love itself raises its head. Who knows?

And I know you are in a hurry and may be trying to read the tat on a tiny laptop: here’s help — one common error of this non-spelling generation: ‘its’, as in ‘its faith’ (a possessive) is spelled wrongly as ‘it’s’, meaning ‘it is’. ‘Perseveres’ is rendered here as ‘preserves’. Maybe you big screen types can find more.

OOPS! More problems… several versions from online, after Googling:

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.”
– 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient, Love is kind,
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud, It is not rude,
It is not self-seeking,
It is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth.

Love always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.

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

Love never ends.

L o v e  N e v e r  F a i l s.

Corinthians 13 : 4 – 8

“Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things
that last forever: faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love.”

…and:

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (New International Version)

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Me again: It seems that people have taken liberty with a poem by Darrell Wright, aka, Br. Sean, which is based on the Corinthians verses by the Apostle Paul, later St. Paul. However, in a Bible I have, a King James translation published in the mid-1950’s, those verses are all about ‘charity’, not love. Oops, somebody’s been tampering with the Gospel.

More information:

Author: 1 Corinthians 1:1 identifies the author of the Book of 1 Corinthians as the Apostle Paul.

Date of Writing: The Book of 1 Corinthians was written in approximately 55 A.D.

Purpose of Writing: The Apostle Paul started the church in Corinth. A few years after leaving the church, the Apostle Paul heard some disturbing reports about the Corinthians church. The church was full of pride, the church was excusing sexual immorality, spiritual gifts were being used improperly, and there was rampant misunderstanding of key Christian doctrines. The Apostle Paul wrote 1 Corinthians in an attempt to restore the Corinthian church to its foundation – Jesus Christ.

AND YET MORE:

Although Paul mentions him as a co-author, there is no indication from 1 Corinthians that Sosthenes made any substantial contribution to the composition of 1 Corinthians. Paul uses the first person singular throughout the letter implying that he is its real author; the nature of Sosthenes’ ancillary contribution is impossible to reconstruct. This Sosthenes may be the man from Corinth mentioned in Acts 18:17, who is said to be the synagogue ruler, presumably appointed as the successor to Crispus (In Acts 18:8, Crispus is said to be the synagogue ruler [see 1 Cor 1:14]). If so, then Sosthenes must have become a believer after the incident described in Acts 18:17, whereupon he left Corinth and traveled to where Paul was when he wrote 1 Corinthians. Paul’s inclusion of him as a co-author may have been motivated by the support that such a prominent Corinthian believer would lend to his letter. If so, then this suggests that Paul may have had some questions about how much authority he still had among the Corinthians (see 1 Cor 4:18).

MY LAST COMMENT: My, my, how confused is she who places permanent tramp stamp on her holy rumpus. And now, me as well. This is about the time a Zen Roshi would smack me on the shoulder with his paddle, in order to snap me back into Empty Mind.

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