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Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love - but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 CSB
If there's a contest, love wins. 
Where we are in a place to rank values between faith and hope and love, love wins. 
This word "remains" is interesting. Remains, stays, abides, stays the same. Faith, hope and love remain.
They remain after the prophecies and words and knowledge of v8 end, they remain after what is partial is made complete, they remain after the mirror is gone and we see face to face. 
Somehow, faith, hope and love are going to remain.
To be. 
It seems forever. 
Even when we no longer need faith, even when hope is swallowed up in reality, somehow they will remain.
Even when we are face to face with Love, the way we have loved somehow will remain. 

I think this is supposed to evoke something in us, like an emotion, like feeling the sun on your face, breathing in the sea air, holding a small child, looking in someone's eyes and knowing that they care... resting... breathing out... like a colour... a warmth... a peace...
Remain.
These three remain.
Faith, Hope, and Love.
And the greatest, is Love. 
#remain

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