The Proof of Your Love

I am passing on the monologue from the song “The Proof of Your Love” from For King and Country. It is an excerpt from 1 Corinthians 13 in The Message. I love the way it states it so clearly and profoundly. No further commentary is necessary. The passage speaks for itself.

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love. (1 Corinthians 13:1-7, The Message)