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Mary Fairchild is a full-time Christian minister, writer, and editor of two Christian anthologies, including "Stories of Calvary."

Fairchild, Mary. "Faith, Hope, and Love: 1 Corinthians 13:13." Learn Religions, Aug. 28, 2020, learnreligions.com/faith-hope-and-love-bible-verse-701339.
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As virtues, faith, hope, and love have long been celebrated. Some Christian denominations consider these to be three theological virtues — each representing values that define humankind's relationship with God himself.

Faith, hope, and love are discussed individually at several points in the Scriptures. In the New Testament book of 1 Corinthians, the apostle Paul mentions the three virtues together and then goes on to identify love as the most important of the three:

This key verse is part of a longer discourse sent by Paul to the Corinthians. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians aimed to instruct and correct young believers in Corinth who were struggling with matters of disunity, immorality, and immaturity.

Since this verse extols the supremacy of love over all other virtues, it is very often selected, along with other passages from the surrounding verses, to be included in modern Christian wedding services . Here is the context of 1 Corinthians 13:13 within the surrounding verses:

As believers in Jesus Christ, it is essential for Christians to understand the meaning of this verse. There's no doubt that each of these virtues — faith, hope, and love — has great value. In fact, the Bible tells us in Hebrews 11:6 that, "...without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God, must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." (NKJV)

The value of faith cannot be disputed. Without it, there would be no Christianity. Without faith, we couldn't come to Christ or walk in obedience to him . Faith is what motivates us to move forward even when the odds are against us. And faith is closely related to hope .

Hope keeps us moving forward. No individual can imagine life without hope. Hope fuels us to face impossible challenges. Hope is the expectation that we will obtain what we desire. Hope is a special gift given by God through his grace to combat the day-to-day monotony and the most difficult circumstances.

Hope is there for the single mom who doesn't know how she is going to feed her children and keep a roof over their heads. She might give up, if not for the hope that a breakthrough is right around the corner. Hope is the invisible hand that holds up the head of a desperate prisoner of war so that he can see the light of day. Hope hangs on to the promise of a Savior who is coming to set him free.

Hope encourages us to keep running the race until we reach the finish line.

The Bible states that love is greater than both faith and hope. We couldn't live our lives without faith or hope: without faith, we cannot know the God of love; without hope, we would not endure in our faith until we meet him face to face. But in spite of the importance of faith and hope, love is even more crucial.

Because without love, the Bible teaches there can be no redemption . In Scripture we learn that God is love ( 1 John 4:8 ) and that he sent his Son, Jesus Christ , to die for us — a supreme act of sacrificial love. Love is what motivated God the Father to send His only Son to die for us. Thus, love is the virtue upon which all Christian faith and hope now stand.

For the believer, love is the foundation for every good thing in our lives. Without love, nothing else matters.

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Walking along the bustling cobbled streets of a small town in Western Turkey our attention was suddenly drawn to a large Turk, in uniform, shouting across the busy road to attract our attention. After three weeks on the road we considered ourselves seasoned travellers and knew that he probably wanted to sell us something. We ignored him. He shouted again and we ignored him again. Then we noticed the gun. It wasn’t that so much which stopped us in our tracks as the fact that it was attached to a hand which, in turn, was attached to the now angry Turk. We suddenly realised that, seasoned or not, without a swift attitude change we would soon be dead travellers.
We had left England in the summer of ’86 on two five-year-old BMW R80GSs in an attempt to ride overland to Sydney, raising money for Save the Children and the Down Syndrome Association. The heavily laden BMWs had already shown themselves to be more than capable through Europe. We had wound our way along the banks of the Moselle river in Germany, along the autobahns into Austria and the autostradas into Italy, which bore through the Italian Alps via a series of amazing tunnels down to the Mediterranean Sea.
After hitting the Mediterranean we had taken one of the best coast roads in the world: the Rijeka to Dubrovnik run which dangles its toes in the Adriatic. Apart from an unnerving habit of scraping off the tarmac on some of the tightest corners, the only other things to inhibit rapid progress were the gale force winds that we encountered. The guy with the Moto Guzzi rounded one rock bluff to find three trail bikes parked in the road in front of him for no apparent reason. Hauling the Guzzi to a stop, he whipped in the clutch and started travelling backwards before he realised what was happening. Parking the bikes up later in search of a beer to calm our nerves, a sudden gust lifted one of the BMs off its side stand. The side stand neatly retracted, the gust dropped, followed a second later by the bike. At times, as the road cut into the cliff-face, with a huge drop into the sea on one side and a wind that seemed determined to put us over it, we might have preferred to have been facing that Turk with the handgun.
In Istanbul – dirty, exotic gateway to the East – we camped between the Turkish equivalent of a six-lane highway and a swamp. The lane markings had long since worn away, resulting in a general free-for-all, with people overtaking on the hard shoulder before spotting a gap in the outside lane and diving for it: usual behaviour for bikes and scooters, except these guys were driving articulated trucks! It soon dawned that the only way to handle this, and still retain an option on our next birthday, was to make sure that we were always the fastest-moving things on the road, thus dispensing with the need for rear observations. The general scene could be likened to the northbound M1 leaving London on the very Friday afternoon radio announced an imminent nuclear strike in fifteen minutes time.
In Istanbul the word was that because Maggie (former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher) had allowed American F1-11s to take off from British soil and rough-up General Gaddafi (former leader of Libya), so the Iranians weren’t likely to be over-generous with transit visas that summer. But – anything for a laugh – we crossed the Bosphorous River into Asia and rode to Ankara, the capital of Turkey, to find the Iranian embassy’s ‘welcome’ policy in the hands of an illiterate Turk who spoke neither Persian nor English. Ten days later, after trying to persuade the Chinese to settle their differences with Russia to help us help children in need, it finally clicked that we were just wasting our time. Most of Asia being effectively blockaded, there was no alternative but to head south for Syria. One of us, namely Max, who was going to have to claim he was Christian but couldn’t produce the foreskin to prove it, was not altogether thrilled with the prospect. We pushed on regardless.
Heading south-east for the Syrian border, we attempted to cross the huge salt lake Taz Gulu’, a huge expanse of brilliant white. If the initial effect of riding across crystalline washboard served to lift our spirits a little, it had exactly the opposite effect on the bikes. When the surface broke they didn’t stand a chance, for underneath the surface lay the thickest of muds imaginable, eventually glueing the rear wheel to the swinging arm and sucking the Bee-eMs down to their engines. We were just hippos pretending to be gazelles. Knobbly Tyres don’t make trail bikes; heavy GSs drown in mud and severely oversteer in sand.
Riding out of Central Annotolia in the long cool shadows of early morning, we picked up the banks of the Euphrates river which took us down to the Syrian border, the midday heat and some of the meanest, ugliest-looking border guards in the northern hemisphere. And, er, would Max be exposed?
After half an hour ‘examining’ our passports and rummaging through our personals, a particularly nasty character in a peaked cap approached Mark’s bike (Mark’s the Christian with the foreskin to prove it), slammed the passports on the petrol tank and stated (as one would state a basic fact of life, like calling the Pope a Catholic) “Mr Mark David, you are a Jew!” Half expecting to meet Terry Waite (former British Hostage) or make the six o’clock news that evening, Mark somehow managed to utter “Er . . .No, I think you’re mistaken”. After a painfully long silence he turned around and walked away. Meanwhile Max, head buried in tank bag, was trying to stifle an uncontrollable fit of the giggles.
After customs had ripped us off on the exchange rates, claiming they had no idea how much sterling was worth, they led us through the small villages of the surrounding desert to the nearest town, where the border officials unloaded some smuggled carpets before pointing us in the right direction for Aleppo (the largest city in the north of Syria). Nervous at entering Syria, we weren’t sure how to handle the mobs flocking round us as we stopped in the centre of the city. “Where are you from?” “Well – where would you like us to be from – er England perhaps” we ventured, half expecting to be dragged off the bikes and clubbed to death. (England broke off diplomatic relations shortly after we left, but it wasn’t our fault). Instead of clubbing, lots of handshaking and invitations for coffee followed. Strange people; perhaps they don’t read the papers. When we came to book into a hotel the staff wouldn’t take the stuff we had changed our British pounds into: “You want a room you pay in pounds sterling “Funny they seem to know how much it’s worth now.
Straight, dusty, dry roads took us to Damascus (Syria’s capital) and a second attempt to obtain Iranian visas. Whilst making our way to the Embassy we inadvertently rode into the street where the President was living. BMWs don’t need ABS – it’s truly amazing what two guys in civilian clothes leaping out and levelling sub-machine guns at you head does for the braking performance of an R80 GS. This was not, however, the recommended way of finding out that motorcycles are a favourite tool of the terrorists around these parts. Failing to get an Iranian visa for the second time we headed south yet again, for the Jordanian border, confident that nothing could be worse than the entry into Syria. We were wrong.
They wouldn’t let us out. They told us that our fifteen day visa was only a 72-hour visa, pointing to the faint smudged stamp in Arabic script in our passport. Because of a customs formality our bikes were now trapped in a no-man’s land between Syria and Jordan, preventing us going back to Damascus to correct the visas. The customs chief suggested that we take a taxi to the nearest village where the police chief would be happy to alter our visas for a modest fee. The chief wasn’t there and his subordinate didn’t have the authority to accept a bribe. The officials back at the border telexed Damascus, which never filled anyone with hope, and as night fell we settled down for a dirty weekend on the Syrian border. Unbeknown to us, whilst in the middle of working out where not to go clubbing, the night shift came on duty; after realising we looked fairly comfortable, unconcerned and too stupid to think of offering another bribe, they booted us unceremoniously into Jordan after a mere 12-hours on the border.
Our £15 worth of near- worthless Syrian currency converted into enough Jordanian coins to buy two cups of tea, and an old five pound note, found in a dark corner of Max’s wallet payed for sufficient documentation to allow the bikes into Jordan.
It was now midnight, and riding south without the aid of a map we found ourselves on a twisty mountain road, straining to make out where the desert stopped and the road began in the faint glow dispensed by the BMW headlights.
The desert stopped grudgingly – in Amman, the capital of Jordan, some time before dawn. We spent the next two days toiling under the impression that our hotel was in the north of the city when in actual fact it was in the south.
The city map inflicted on us by the ‘information’ bureau played no part in helping us to realise our mistake. Evidently Jordanians don’t like to give too much away on their maps (until recently they hadn’t been available at all), for fear that the Israeli army would issue job-lots to their tank drivers.
We did however manage to find a British pub where we got friendly with the Embassy staff and, in turn, with two very useful contacts. The first, a Palestinian, brought us a pint and pulled £440 out of his pocket for the charities, The second, an Arab, performed the impossible and obtained two transit visas for Saudi Arabia. Our wheels were rolling East again.
We’d been warned that the Saudis are real sticklers for – or rather, against – drugs and, if they found so much as an aspirin, would hold us on the border for several days while they sent it away for analysis. There was no way we were going to give up our medical drugs, so we stuffed them into a sleeping bag which was then stuffed into another bag which was then stuffed into the spare tyres. Hopefully it wouldn’t look like we’d been hiding them. On arrival at the border everything had to be unloaded. The sleeping bag with the drugs was placed at the far end of the bench. By the time he got to the bag, we were both worn out from trying desperately to act normally. Fortunately the guard became too interested in the details of our journey to pay much attention to what he was doing and the drugs remained where they were. The international drug smugglers were through yet another border, pills intact: into the land of cheap petrol and desperately boring scenery.
We filled up our fuel tanks with fuel that cost less that coca-cola, then found the oil pipeline which crosses the Saudi desert from the Mediterranean to the Gulf. We followed this panoramic jewel east for 1,000 miles without a single bend. The desert it enhances is easy to describe: it is jam-packed full of nothing. The occasional wrecked car, the product of falling asleep whilst admiring the scenery, being the only thing to help keep the eyelids open.
With temperatures reaching 50 degrees centigrade, and the bikes trendy black levers too hot to touch, the engines never missed a beat despite so much heat coming off the cylinder heads that we had to ride with our feet on the crashbars.
After raising some cash for the kids in the Gulf city of Damman, we headed for Qatar. We expected a spot of bother with this decision as our Saudi transit visas were conditional on us exiting Saudi at the Kuwaiti border. Kuwait, however, was a place we ha
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