Love Is . . .: Meditations for Couples on I Corinthians 13
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For those who want to grow in the art of loving well Reflections on 1 Corinthians 13 featuring 16 different translations and paraphrases of the Bible's beloved "Love Chapter"
Les and Leslie Parrott
#1 New York Times bestselling authors Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott are psychologists and founders of the game-changing online assessments: SYMBIS.com, BetterLove.com, and Yada.com. Their best-selling books include Love Talk, The Good Fight, Crazy Good Sex, and the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts. Their work has been featured in the New York Times and USA Today and on CNN, Good Morning America, the Today Show, The View, and Oprah. LesAndLeslie.com
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Love Is . . . - Les and Leslie Parrott
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Resources by Les and Leslie Parrott
Books
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The Marriage Mentor Manual
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Relationships
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
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Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
Audio Pages
Relationships
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
Books by Les Parrott
Helping the Struggling Adolescent
High-Maintenance Relationships
Love’s Unseen Enemy
Once Upon a Family
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Love is
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Parrott, Les.
Love is : meditations for couples on I Corinthians 13 / Les and Leslie Parrott.
p. cm. ,
ISBN: 0-310-21666-4
1. Bible. N.T. Corinthians, 1st, XIII—Meditations. 2. Love—Religious aspects—Christianity—Meditations. 3. Spouses—Religious life.
I. Parrott, Leslie L., 1964– . II. Title.
BS2675.6.L6P37 1998
242'.644—dc21
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CIP
Translations quoted include: Basic Bible Translation copyright © 1950 by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.; Berkeley Version copyright © 1958 by Zondervan Publishing House; Cotton Patch Version of Paul’s Epistles copyright © 1968 by Clarence Jordan; Letters to Young Churches by J. B. Phillips copyright © 1947 by The Macmillan Company; The King James Version; The Letters to the Corinthians by William Barclay; The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers; The Message copyright © 1993 by Eugene H. Peterson; New American Bible copyright © 1970 by Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; New International Readers’ Version copyright © 1994, 1996 by International Bible Society; New International Version copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society; Ronald Knox copyright © 1944 by Sheed & Ward, Inc.; Twentieth Century New Testament copyright © 1900 by Fleming H. Revell Company; Wuest’s Expanded Translation of the Greek New Testament © 1958 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. In addition, every effort was made to contact Angela McCord for her permission and to locate publishing information for J. Oswald Sanders.
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To J. Paul and Marilyn Turner,
a couple whose commitment
to married love
is matched by their
selfless service to others
Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
The Most Excellent Way
If I Speak
New International Version
Love Is Patient
King James Version
Love Is Kind
Wuest’s Expanded Translation
Love Does Not Envy
The Message
Love Does Not Boast
Angela McCord
Love Is Not Proud
J. Oswald Sanders
Love Is Not Rude
Berkeley Version
Love Is Not Self-Seeking
Cotton Patch Version
Love Is Not Easily Angered .
Basic Bible Translation
Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs
New American Bible
Love Rejoices with the Truth
Twentieth Century New Testament
Love Always Protects
New International Reader’s Version
Love Always Trusts.
William Barclay
Love Always Hopes
J. B. Phillips
Love Always Perseveres .
Ronald Knox
A Poor Reflection
Living Bible
Afterword
Appendix of Bible Translations
About the Publisher
Share Your Thoughts
The Most
Excellent Way
What is the summum bonum—the supreme good?"
With this question Professor Henry Drummond began his famous lecture The Greatest Thing in the World.
The year was 1883 as he stood before a classroom of college students and drove home the question: You have life before you. Once only can you live it. What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet?
The rhetorical question required no reply. Everyone knew the answer. Love. Love is the ultimate good. It lifts us outside ourselves. Love sees beyond the normal range of human vision—over walls of resentment and barriers of betrayal. Love rises above the petty demands and conflicts of life and inspires our spirit to transcend who we are tempted to settle for: decent, but merely mediocre. Love aims higher. Unencumbered by self-absorption, love charms us to reach our ideal. Love allures us with a hint of what might be possible. No question about it.
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. Anonymous
Love is the summum bonum—the most excellent way.
And no words, no passage, no song or poem in all of human history has crystallized the qualities of love into simple absolutes more elegantly than 1 Corinthians 13. The Love Chapter of the Bible paints a perfect picture of love. It reveals the ideal love everyone yearns for. But something about these words, the way they are written, tells us they are meant to be not only admired but also lived. These words are a means to a more excellent way of being.
While the passage