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commandment is self-forgetfulness coupled to a conscious and continuous quest for the leading of the Spirit of Truth to direct all of our inter-personal relationships. How did Jesus love? Real love, God-like love, divine love, is gracious, compassionate, undemanding, under-standing, never selfish, always outgoing. Paul put it this way:
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, if I have not love I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have faith to move mountains, if I have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
"Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; vaunts not itself, is not puffed up. Love behaves not unseemly, is never self-seeking, never provocative, thinks no evil. Love rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in truth. Love bears all things, trusts all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
"Love never fails, but where there be prophecies they shall fail; where there be tongues they shall cease; where there be knowledge it shall pass away. For now we know in part, and we prophecy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see as in a glass, darkly; but then, face to face. Now I know in part. Then I shall know even as I am known. And now abides faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor. 13)
Reference: The Urantia Book, pages 1950/1951.
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