4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Let your life be ruled by love! (for God is Love, God=Love, be ruled by God!)
8 Love never fails...
22 So Samuel said:This means that God takes no delight in the forgiveness of the sin that you should have never done, but rather that you should have obeyed God's laws instead which would have eliminated doing the sin. (God will still forgive you, but He would rather have you simply be obedient instead!)
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5...He saved us... 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works.
