For this week’s blog, I have chosen to share with my followers who just might be contemplating matrimony in the year 2026. This literary contribution was actually written several years ago for a young adult church conference. The dialogue is between a co-ed couple contemplating matrimony in their near future. The majority of my 2 presenters have recited this pre-marital dialogue at various venues. Namely, Christian settings, at birthday ceremonies, during marriage counseling sessions and also just for fun. Even married couples have recited this revealing heart-felt Christian exchanged while renewing their marriage vows.

My scripture references selected are taken from I Corinthians 13:1-13 for Male Voice (MV). And I used the Book of Matthew for the Female Voice (FV). What I tried to accomplish was to allow Biblical scripture verses to “talk” to each other. This idea was deposited into my holy spiritual memory bank in 1975, the year I was visiting my mother and step-father’s home in Minneapolis, MS.

“BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE”

FV: Matt. 12:35 The good man brings good things out of good stored up in him.

MV: I Cor. 13:1 (Never the less)…If I speak in tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

FV: Matt. 17:20 I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there’ and it will move.

MV: I Cor. 13:2 (But, woman, have you not heard?). If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have a faith that can move mountains but have not love, I am nothing.

FV: Matt. 19:21 (Well) If you want to be perfect go, sell your possessions, and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven.

MV: I Cor. 13:3 (Beloved). If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames but have not love, I gain nothing.

FV: Matt. 5:44 & 45 (Then take this advice) Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.

MV: I Cor. 13:4 &5 (Good advice, because). 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.

FV: Matt. 18:15 (Then remember, my Dear) If our brother sins against you go and show him his fault, just between the two of you.

MV: I Cor. 13:6 (Right, again) Love does not delight in evil but in truth.

FV: Matt. 5:14 (You exude love) You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

MV: I Cor. 13:7 (Love)…always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres.

FV: Matt. 5:13 (Also,) You are the salt of the earth. But, if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?

MV: I Cor. 13:8. (With love, of course!) Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled.

FV: Matt. 24:42. (You must) Therefore keep watch because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

MV: I Cor. 13:8b, 9 &10 (Know this)…Where there is knowledge it will pass away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

FV: Matt. 18:3. I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

MV: I Cor. 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.

FV: Matt. 6:22 (You have a good eye) The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of ligh

MV: I Cor. 13:12a Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.

FV: Matt. 14:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.

MV: I Cor. 13:12b Now I know in part, then I shall know full, even as I am fully known.

FV: Matt. 22:37 & 38 (Then know this, always) Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.

MV: I Cor. 13:12b And now these three remain; faith, hope and love.

FV & MV: I Cor. 13:13b BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.

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