<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Irresistibly Fish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[brettfish]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://brettfish.wordpress.com/author/brettfish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[How to Save a Marriage… before you need to. [part&nbsp;vi]]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Another looks at what makes a good marriage great, this time by my good friend Richard &#8216;Snoek&#8217; Leonard:</p>
<p>•	Humility, constant communication, a surrendered heart to God and a biblical 1Cor13 active love.</p>
<p>Short and sweet, so let&#8217;s take a look at what he means by 1 Corinthians 13 love:</p>
<p>1 Corinthians 13</p>
<p>If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,t but do not have love, I gain nothing.</p>
<p>Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.</p>
<p>Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.</p>
<p>And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.</p>
<p><a href="https://brettfish.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/how-to-save-a-marriage%E2%80%A6-before-you-need-to-part-vii/">to see the next part &#8211; part 7 &#8211; click here&#8230;</a></p>
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