A Poem on Love When Love is Failing

The Corinthians of the New Testament times were no role-models of love. They had bought into all the definitions of love of their godless culture and sinful hearts. But God was changing them. In the middle of a rather extensive lecture/rebuke regarding practical church matters (1 Corinthians chapters 12 – 14), God penned this poem on love before continuing the lecture.

This is a poem on love when love has been failing for a long time already. Here is a translation of it in English.

This love is patient;
kind, is this love;
not jealous,
not boastful,
not conceited,
not rude,
not self-seeking,
not agitated,
not remembering wrongs,

not rejoicing in unrighteousness,
but rejoicing in truth,
everything bearing,
everything trusting,
everything hoping,
everything enduring.
This love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

Will you show this love in situations where love is failing?