LOVE

Haiku:

1 Corinthians (1 Co) 13:13 CJB

Sonnet:

Lines 1-4:

1 Corinthians (1 Co) 13:1-3 CJB

Lines 5-8:

1 Corinthians (1 Co) 13:4-8 CJB

Lines 9-12:

1 Corinthians (1 Co) 13:9-12 CJB

Lines 13-14:

1 Corinthians (1 Co) 14:1 CJB

[Verse]

Though I speak tongues of men and those of flame,  

Without love’s fire, I’m noise—an empty bell.  

Prophetic gifts, all knowledge, faith to name—  

If love is lacking, I am lost as well.  

[Refrain]

Faith, hope, and love stay—  

but love outshines all the rest,  

eternal and true.

[Verse]

Love is patient, kind, not proud or untrue,  

It does not envy, boast, or seek its own.  

It bears all things, rejoices in the true—  

Love never fails, though all else be o’erthrown.  

[Refrain]

Faith, hope, and love stay—  

but love outshines all the rest,  

eternal and true.

[Verse]

For now we know in part, and speak in haze,  

But when the perfect comes, the veil shall fall.  

What once was childlike fades in wisdom’s blaze—  

Now dimly seen, then face to face with all.  

[Refrain]

Faith, hope, and love stay—  

but love outshines all the rest,  

eternal and true.

[Bridge]

So follow love, let it your steps ignite,  

Yet seek the gift to prophesy in light.

[Refrain]

Faith, hope, and love stay—  

but love outshines all the rest,  

eternal and true.

[Outro]

So follow love, let it your steps ignite,  

Yet seek the gift to prophesy in light.