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1 Corinthians - Abridged

13: 2, 4-8, 13

. . if I have all faith so as to move mountains,

but do not have love, I am nothing. . . .

Love is patient, love is kind.

It is not jealous, love is not pompous,

it is not inflated, it is not rude,

it does not seek its own interests,

it is not quick-tempered,

it does not brood over injury,

it does not rejoice over wrongdoing

but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. . . .

So faith, hope, love remain, these three;

but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians

13: 1-13

If I speak in human and angelic tongues,

but do not have love,

I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy,

and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge;

if I have all faith so as to move mountains,

but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give away everything I own,

and if I hand my body over so that I may boast,

but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.

It is not jealous, love is not pompous,

it is not inflated, it is not rude,

it does not seek its own interests,

it is not quick-tempered,

it does not brood over injury,

it does not rejoice over wrongdoing

but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

If there are prophecies,

they will be brought to nothing;

if tongues, they will cease;

if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

For we know partially and we prophesy partially,

but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

When I was a child, I used to talk as a child,

think as a child, reason as a child;

when I became a man,

I put aside childish things.

At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,

but then face to face.

At present I know partially;

then I shall know fully as I am fully known.

So faith, hope, love remain, these three;

but the greatest of these is love.

Scottish Wedding Prayer

Unknown Author

Lord help us to remember when we first met and the strong love that grew between us. Help us work that love into practical things so that nothing can divide us. We ask for words both kind and loving and hearts always ready to ask forgiveness as well as to forgive. Dear Lord, we put our marriage into your hands.

Marriage Prayer

Unknown Author

Father in heaven, You ordained marriage for your children, and you gave us love. We present to You ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, who come this day to be married. May the covenant of love they make be blessed with true devotion and spiritual commitment. We ask that You, God, will give them the ability to keep the covenant they have made. When selfishness shows itself, grant generosity; when mistrust is a temptation, give moral strength; when there is misunderstanding, give patience and gentleness; if suffering becomes a part of their lives, give them a strong faith and an abiding love. Amen.

Isaiah

6: 10, 11

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God, for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice He hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and a bride adorned with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden caused her seed to shoot forth, so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

John

3: 27-29

A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven. You yourselves do bear witness that I said, “I am not Christ, but that I am sent from Him.” He that hath the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with the joy because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is fulfilled.

Wedding Gifts

Katherine Murphy

Grant us O Lord, the gift of words,

kind and loving words that communicate

and encourage, words of wisdom from you.

Grant us O Lord, the gift of attention,

rapt listening to the needs of one another

and the casting aside of all focus on ourselves.

Grant us O Lord, the gift of acceptance,

the ability to recognize our differences and

see in one another the unique person you created.

Grant us O Lord, the gift of patience, not only

with each other as we grow and change but to

know that all good things come in your time.

Grant us O Lord, the greatest of all the gifts,

Love – on this day and always – as we join together

in the sacred union of marriage.

Wedding Prayer

Robert Louis Stevenson

Lord, behold our family

here assembled.

We thank you for this place

in which we dwell,

for the love that unites us,

for the peace accorded us this day,

for the hope with which

we expect the morrow,

for the health, the work,

the food, and the bright skies

that make our lives delightful;

for our friends

in all parts of the earth.

Cherokee Prayer

Unknown Author

God in heaven above please protect the ones we love.

We honor all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together.

We honor mother earth and ask that our marriage be abundant and grow

stronger through the seasons;

We honor fire and ask that our union be warm and glowing

with love in our hearts;

We honor wind and ask that we sail through life safe and calm as

in our father’s arms;

We honor water to clean and soothe our relationship,

that it may never thirst for love.

With all the forces of the universe you created, we pray for harmony and

true happiness as we forever grow younger together.

Song of Songs

2: 12-14, 16

Behold my beloved speaketh to me: “Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come. For winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come; the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig tree hath put forth her green figs; the vines in flower yield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come. My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears. For thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely…” My beloved is mine and I am his who feedeth among the lilies.

Matthew

19: 3-6

And there came to Him the Pharisees tempting Him and saying: “Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?” Who answering, said to them: “Have ye not read, that He who made man from beginning, ‘made them male and female’? And he said: ‘For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.’ Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.”

The Prayer

Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make us instruments of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let us sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is discord, union;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that we may not so much seek

To be consoled as to console,

To be understood as to understand,

To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen.

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Genesis

2: 18-24

The Lord God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” So the Lord God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.

So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The Lord God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man, the man said: “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken.”

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.

Ecclesiates

4: 9-12

Two are better than one: they get a good wage for their labor. If the one falls, the other will life up his companion. Woe to the solitary man! For if he should fall, he has no one to life him up. So also, if two sleep together, they keep each other warm. How can one alone keep warm? Where a lone man may be overcome, two together can resist. A three-ply cord is not easily broken.

Song of Songs

8: 6-7

True Love

Set me as a seal on your heart,

as a seal on your arm;

For stern as death is love,

relentless as the nether world is devotion;

its flames are a blazing fire.

Deep waters cannot quench love,

nor floods sweep it away.

Were one to offer all he owns to purchase love,

he would be roundly mocked.