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Not for Tongues of Heaven's Angels
Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Meter: 8.7.8.7.6 Appears in 32 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Lyrics: 1
Not for tongues of heaven’s angels,
not for wisdom to discern,
not for faith that masters mountains,
for this better gift we yearn:
may love be ours, O Lord.
2
Love is humble; love is gentle;
love is tender, true, and kind;
love is gracious, ever patient,
generous of heart and mind:
may love be ours, O Lord.
3
Never jealous, never selfish,
love will not rejoice in wrong;
never boastful nor resentful,
love believes and suffers long:
may love be ours, O Lord.
4
In the day this world is fading
faith and hope will play their part,
but when Christ is seen in glory,
love shall reign in every heart:
may love be ours, O Lord.
Topics: Service Used With Tune: REINLYN
Not for Tongues of Heaven's Angels
Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost
Author: Christopher Wordsworth Meter: 7.7.7.5 Appears in 205 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Lyrics: 1 Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost,
Taught by You, we covet most
Of Your gifts at Pentecost,
Holy, heavenly love.
2 Love is kind and suffers long;
Love is meek,and thinks no wrong;
Love than death itself more strong;
Therefore give us love.
3 Prophecy will fade away,
Melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay;
Therefore give us Love.
4 Faith and hope and love we see,
Joining hand in hand agree,
But the greatest of the three,
And the best, is love.
Topics: Spiritual Gifts Used With Tune: ANDERSON
Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost
The Gift of Love
Author: Hal H. Hopson Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 28 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 First Line: Though I may speak with bravest fire Lyrics: 1 Though I may speak with bravest fire,
and have the gift to all inspire,
and have not love, my words are vain;
as sounding brass, and hopeless gain.
2 Though I may give all I possess,
and striving so my love profess,
but not be given by love within,
the profit soon turns strangely thin.
3 Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control,
our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide every deed;
by this we worship, and are freed.
Topics: Service of the Word Dedication Songs; The Service of the Word Dedication Songs Used With Tune: GIFT OF LOVE
The Gift of Love
Hymn 134
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 227 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 First Line: Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews Lyrics:
Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,
And nobler speech, that angels use,
If love be absent, I am found,
Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.
Were I inspired to preach and tell
All that is done in heav'n and hell;
Or could my faith the world remove,
Still I am nothing without love.
Should I distribute all my store
To feed the bowels of the poor,
Or give my body to the flame,
To gain a martyr's glorious name;
If love to God and love to men
Be absent, all my hopes are vain;
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The work of love can e'er fulfil.
Hymn 134
Face to Face
Author: Carrie E. Breck Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 226 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 First Line: Face to face with Christ my Savior Refrain First Line: Face to face I shall behold him Lyrics: 1 Face to face with Christ my Savior,
face to face-—what will it be
when with rapture I behold him,
Jesus Christ who died for me?
[Refrain:]
Face to face I shall behold him,
far beyond the starry sky;
face to face in all his glory,
I shall see him by and by!
2 Only faintly now I see him,
with the darkened veil between;
but a blessèd day is coming
when his glory shall be seen. (Refrain)
3 What rejoicing in his presence
when are banished grief and pain,
when the crooked ways are straightened
and the dark things shall be plain. (Refrain)
4 Face to face! O blissful moment!
Face to face—-to see and know;
face to face with my Redeemer,
Jesus Christ who loves me so. (Refrain)
Topics: The Christian Life Death and Eternal Life; Funerals; Spiritual Conflict; Eternal Life; Funerals Used With Tune: FACE TO FACE
Face to Face
Hymn 133
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 68 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:2-7 First Line: Let Pharisees of high esteem Lyrics:
Let Pharisees of high esteem
Their faith and zeal declare,
All their religion is a dream,
If love be wanting there.
Love suffers long with patient eye,
Nor is provoked in haste;
She lets the present injury die,
And long forgets the past.
[Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue;
Hopes and believes, and thinks no ill,
Though she endure the wrong.]
[She nor desires nor seeks to know
The scandals of the time;
Nor looks with pride on those below,
Nor envies those that climb.]
She lays her own advantage by
To seek her neighbor's good;
So God's own Son came down to die,
And bought our lives with blood.
Love is the grace that keeps her power
In all the realms above;
There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints for ever love.
Hymn 133
Where True Charity and Love Abide
Meter: Irregular Appears in 36 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:13 First Line: Ubi caritas et amor (Where true charity and love abide) Lyrics: Latin --
Ubi caritas et amor,
ubi caritas Deus ibi est.
English --
Where true charity and love abide,
God is dwelling there; God is dwelling there. Topics: Holy Week, The Three Days Used With Tune: TAIZÉ UBI CARITAS Text Sources: Latin, 8th cent
Where True Charity and Love Abide
We Are Many Parts
Author: Marty Haugen, b. 1950 Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 First Line: God of all, we look to you Topics: Sharing Used With Tune: [God of all, we look to you]
We Are Many Parts
O Word of God Incarnate
Author: William W. How Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 487 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 Lyrics: 1 O Word of God incarnate,
O Wisdom from on high,
O Truth unchanged, unchanging,
O Light of our dark sky:
we praise you for the radiance
that from the hallowed page,
a lantern to our footsteps,
shines on from age to age.
2 The Church from you, dear Master,
received this gift divine,
and still that light is lifted
o'er all the earth to shine.
It is the chart and compass
that, all life's voyage through,
mid mists and rocks and quicksands,
still guides, O Christ, to you.
3 O make your church, dear Savior,
a lamp of burnished gold
to bear before the nations
your true light, as of old;
O, teach your traveling pilgrims
by this their path to trace,
till, clouds and darkness ended,
they see you face to face.
Topics: Church; Guidance; Heaven; Jesus Christ Wisdom; Jesus Christ Word of God; Pilgrimage; Proclamation; Holy Scriptures Used With Tune: MUNICH
O Word of God Incarnate
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