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Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost

Author: Christopher Wordsworth Meter: 7.7.7.5 Appears in 204 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

Not for Tongues of Heaven's Angels

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Meter: 8.7.8.7.6 Appears in 30 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

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

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.

Face to Face

Author: Carrie E. Breck Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 222 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

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.

Where True Charity and Love Abide

Meter: Irregular Appears in 34 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

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]

Only Love

Author: Rafael Grullón; S. T. Kimbrough, Jr. Meter: 6.9.9.9.4.7.9 Appears in 9 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 First Line: Only love, only love Topics: The Church at Worship Proclamation; Global Hymns; Proclamation; Reconciliation Used With Tune: EL AMOR

O Word of God Incarnate

Author: William W. How Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 485 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 Perfect Love

Author: Dorothy F. Gurney Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 237 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:13 First Line: O perfect Love, all human thought transcending Lyrics: 1 O perfect Love, all human thought transcending, lowly we kneel in prayer before thy throne, that theirs may be the love which knows no ending, whom thou in sacred vow dost join in one. 2 O perfect Life, be thou their full assurance of tender charity and steadfast faith, of patient hope, and quiet, brave endurance, with childlike trust that fears not pain nor death. 3 Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow; grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife; grant them the vision of the glorious morrow that will reveal eternal love and life. Topics: Love Our Love of Others; Weddings Used With Tune: O PERFECT LOVE

We'll Understand It Better By and By

Author: Charles Albert Tindley Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 95 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 First Line: We are tossed and driven on the restless sea of time Refrain First Line: By and by, when the morning comes Lyrics: 1. We are tossed and driven on the restless sea of time; somber skies and howling tempests oft succeed a bright sunshine; in that land of perfect day, when the mists have rolled away, we will understand it better by and by. Refrain: By and by, when the morning comes, when the saints of God are gathered home, we'll tell the story how we've overcome, for we'll understand it better by and by. 2. We are often destitute of the things that life demands, want of food and want of shelter, thirsty hills and barren lands; we are trusting in the Lord, and according to God's word, we will understand it better by and by. [Refrain] 3. Trials dark on every hand, and we cannot understand all the ways that God would lead us to that blessed promised land; but he guides us with his eye, and we'll follow till we die for we'll understand it better by and by. [Refrain] 4. Temptations, hidden snares often take us unawares, and our hearts are made to bleed for a thoughtless word or deed; and we wonder why the test when we try to do our best, but we'll understand it better by and by. [Refrain] Topics: Sanctifiying and Perfecting Grace Strength in Triublation; Affliction and Tribulation; Eternal Life; Trust Used With Tune: BY AND BY

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 1,864 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 Lyrics: 1 Love divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heav'n, to earth come down! Fix in us your humble dwelling, All your faithful mercies crown. Jesus, source of all compassion, Love unbounded, love all pure; Visit us with your salvation, Let your love in us endure. 2 Come, Almighty, to deliver, Let us all your life receive; Suddenly return and never, Nevermore your temples leave. You we would be always blessing, Serve you as your hosts above, Pray, and praise you without ceasing, Glory in your perfect love. 3 Finish then your new creation, Pure and spotless, gracious Lord. Let us see your great salvation Perfectly in you restored. Changed from glory into glory, Till in heav'n we take our place, Till we sing before the Almighty, Lost in wonder, love, and praise. Topics: Advent Season; Marriage Sacraments; Funeral Sacraments; Compassion; Grace; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Joy; Love of God for Us; Mercy, Forgiveness; New Creation; Petition, Prayer; Reconciliation, Atonement, Forgiveness; Salvation; Second Coming Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

To God Be the Glory

Author: Fanny J. Crosby, 1820-1915 Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 226 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 First Line: To God be the glory, great things he hath done Refrain First Line: Praise the Lord, praise the Lord Lyrics: 1 To God be the glory, great things he hath done; so loved he the world that he gave us his Son, who yielded his life an atonement for sin, and opened the life gate that all may go in. Refrain: Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice! Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice! O come to the Father through Jesus the Son, and give him the glory, great things he hath done. 2 O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, to every believer the promise of God; the vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. [Refrain] 3 Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done, and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son; but purer, and higher and greater will be our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see. [Refrain] Used With Tune: TO GOD BE THE GLORY

Some Sweet Day, By and By

Author: Edna L. Park Appears in 43 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 First Line: We shall reach the summer land Refrain First Line: By and by, Some sweet day Lyrics: 1 We shall reach the summer land, Some sweet day, by and by; We shall press the golden strand, Some sweet day, by and by; O the loved ones watching there, By the tree of life so fair, Till we come their joy to share, Some sweet day, by and by. Refrain: By and by, Some sweet day, We shall meet our loved ones gone, Some sweet day, by and by. 2 At the crystal river’s brink, Some sweet day, by and by; We shall find each broken link, Some sweet day, by and by; Then the star that, fading here, Left our hearts and homes so drear, We shall see more bright and clear, Some sweet day, by and by. [Refrain] 3 O these parting scenes will end, Some sweet day, by and by; We shall gather friend with friend, Some sweet day, by and by; There before our Father’s throne, When the mists and clouds have flown, We shall know as we are known, Some sweet day, by and by. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [We shall reach the summer land]

When Love Is Found

Author: Brian Wren, 1936- Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 First Line: When love is found and hope comes home Lyrics: 1 When love is found and hope comes home, sing and be glad that two are one. When love explodes and fills the sky, praise God and share our Maker's joy. 2 When love has flowered in trust and care, build both each day, that love may dare to reach beyond home's warmth and light, to serve and strive for truth and right. 3 When love is tried as loved ones change, hold still to hope though all seems strange, till ease returns, and love grows wise through listening ears and opened eyes. 4 When love is torn and trust betrayed, pray strength to love till torments fade, till lovers keep no score of wrong, but hear through pain love's Easter song. 5 Praise God for love, praise God for life, in age or youth, in calm or strife. Lift up your hearts, let love be fed through death and life in broken bread. Topics: Family & Relationships; Marriage Used With Tune: GIFT OF LOVE

Where True Love and Charity Are Found

Author: Richard Proulx, b. 1937 Meter: 12.12.12.12 with refrain Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:2-8 First Line: Since the love of Christ has brought us all together (Congregávit nos in unum Christi amor) Refrain First Line: Where true love and charity are found (Ubi cáritas et amor) Topics: Rites of the Church Marriage; Brotherhood and Sisterhood Used With Tune: UBI CARITAS Text Sources: Latin, 9th C.

Come Down, O Love Divine

Author: Richard Frederick Littledale (1833-1890); Bianco da Siena (d. 1434) Meter: 6.6.11 D Appears in 108 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Lyrics: 1 Come down, O Love Divine, seek out this soul of mine, and visit it with your own ardour glowing; O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear, and kindle it, your holy flame bestowing. 2 O let it freely burn, till earthly passions turn to dust and ashes, in its heat consuming; and let your glorious light shine ever on my sight, and clothe me round, the while my path illuming. 3 Let holy charity my outward vesture be, and lowliness becomes my inner clothing; true lowliness of heart, which takes the humbler part, and o'er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing. 4 And so the yearning strong, with which the soul will long, shall far outpass the power of human telling; we cannot guess its grace, till he become the place wherein the Holy Spirit makes a dwelling. Topics: Our Response to Christ In Penitence; The Holy Spirit The Coming of the Spirit; Holy Spirit as Comforter; Humility; Longing; Purity Of Heart Used With Tune: DOWN AMPNEY

Thee We Adore, O Hidden Savior

Author: Thomas Aquinas, c. 1225-74; James R. Woodford, 1820-85; Stephen P. Starke, b. 1955 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 61 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 First Line: Thee we adore, O hidden Savior, Thee Lyrics: 1 Thee we adore, O hidden Savior, Thee, Who in Thy Sacrament art please to be; Both flesh and spirit in thy presence fail, Yet here Thy presence we devoutly hail. (Sts. 2 and 3 copyrighted) 4 Fountain of goodness, Jesus, Lord and God: Cleanse us, unclean, with Thy most cleansing blood; Increase our faith and love, that we may know The hope and peace which from thy presence flow. 5 O Christ, whom now beneath a veil we see, May what we thirst for soon our portion be: To gaze on Thee unveiled and see Thy face, The vision of Thy glory, and Thy grace. Amen. Topics: The Lord's Supper Used With Tune: ADORO TE DEVOTE

Where Charity and Love Prevail

Author: Omer Westendorf, 1916- Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 41 hymnals Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Topics: Forgiveness; Holy Week (Maundy Thursday); Love; Unity (church); Christian Life Used With Tune: TWENTY-FOURTH (PRIMROSE) Text Sources: Latin (9th cent.)

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