1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13
Psalm 33:2-5, 12, 22
Luke 7:31-35
1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13
(31) But be zealous for the better charisms. And I reveal to you a yet more excellent way. (1) If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. (2) And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. (3) And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. (4) Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. (5) Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. (6) Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. (7) Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all. (8) Charity is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed. (9) For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part. (10) But when the perfect arrives, the imperfect passes away. (11) When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child. (12) Now we see through a glass darkly. But then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I am known. (13) But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.
Psalm 33:2-5, 12, 22
(2) Confess to the Lord with stringed instruments; sing psalms to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings. (3) Sing to him a new song. Sing psalms to him skillfully, with loud exclamation. (4) For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his works are in faith. (5) He loves mercy and judgment. The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord. (12) Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his inheritance. (22) Let your mercy be upon us, O Lord, just as we have hoped in you.
Luke 7:31-35
(31) Then the Lord said: “Therefore, to what shall I compare the men of this generation? And to what are they similar? (32) They are like children sitting in the marketplace, talking with one another, and saying: ‘We sang to you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not weep.’ (33) For John the Baptist came, neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ (34) The Son of man came, eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a voracious man and a drinker of wine, a friend of tax collectors and of sinners.’ (35) But wisdom is justified by all her children.”
