Here’s a readers’ theatre setting of
1 Corinthians 13: 1-13. It is set for
two voices.
Readers’ Theatre: 1 Corinthians 13:
1-13
If I could speak all the languages
of earth and of angels,
but didn’t love others,
I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I had the gift of prophecy,
and if I understood all of God’s
secret plans
and possessed all knowledge,
and if I had such faith that I could
move mountains,
but didn’t love others,
I would be nothing.
If I gave everything I have to the
poor and even sacrificed my body,
I could boast about it;
but if I didn’t love others,
I would have gained nothing.
Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or
proud or rude.
It does not demand its own way.
It is not irritable,
and it keeps no record of being
wronged.
It does not rejoice about injustice
but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love never gives up,
never loses faith,
is always hopeful,
and endures through every circumstance.
Prophecy and speaking in unknown
languages and special knowledge
will become useless.
But love will last forever!
Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete,
and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
But when the time of perfection comes,
these partial things will become useless.
When I was a child,
I spoke and thought and reasoned as
a child.
But when I grew up, I put away
childish things.
Now we see things imperfectly,
like puzzling reflections in a mirror,
but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.
All that I know now is partial and
incomplete,
but then I will know everything
completely,
just as God now knows me completely.
Three things will last forever—
faith, hope, and love—
and the greatest of these is love.
