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人们时常会在婚礼中诵读这段经文的。它对爱极具诗意的描绘，适用于任何人，无论对什么地方的人，它的信息都能为其带来激励和力量。

这章圣经中的“爱”字，是希腊文的agape，这个字形容我们所能想像得到的最深切的爱，这是纯真、无条件的爱，因着这种爱，我们愿意舍弃自己的性命来拯救别人。这种爱最能表达“死而后生”的真正意义。

在这里，使徒保罗解释说，爱比起所有我们能够做的事更为重要，如果没有爱，我们无论做什么事，都是没有意义的。

他又提到我们如今所知道的“有限”，以及到那时就“全”知道了。换句话说，就是我们现在对很多事情仍然是不知道的。

“不清楚知道”和“爱人”又有什么关系呢？我想到有两方面：（1）我年纪越大，我便越发看到我不知道的事是那么多；（2）我对某件事越有把握，我便越发放胆去评判那些不像我那样有把握的人。关键在于，我越是放胆去评判人，我便当然越发地没有爱心了。

一位八十岁的女士对我说：“我有生以来的大部分时间，都希望证明自己是对的，但是，现在我终于明白，以爱待人其实比这重要得多。”

This chapter of the Bible has often been read at weddings. Its poetic description of love is so universal that people everywhere are encouraged and strengthened by its message.

The word for “love” in this chapter is the Greek word agape, which describes the deepest love we can imagine. This is pure, unconditional love, for which we would give up our life to save another. This kind of love is the truest expression of “dying to live.”

The apostle Paul explains here that love is more important than all the other things we can do. And if we do anything without love, it means nothing.

He also talks about knowing only “in part” and about someday knowing “fully.” In other words, there’s a lot we don’t know yet.

What does not knowing have to do with love? Two thoughts come to mind: (1) the older I get, the more I realize how much I don’t know; and (2) the more certain I am of something, the freer I feel to judge others who don’t have the same certainty. The problem with that, of course, is that the freer I feel to judge, the less loving I become.

An 80-year-old woman said to me, “For most of my life I wanted to be right. Now I’ve finally realized that being loving is much more important.”