1 Cor. 13 , New American Evangelical Translation

 

Since when has freedom become the ULTIMATE good for Christians?

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1 Cor. 13 , New American Evangelical Translation

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have freedom, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 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 freedom, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast but do not have freedom, I gain nothing.

4 Freedom is my right as an American; freedom is only for white people like me. It does not yield, it does not come in second, it is proud. 5 It does not care about what is right and good; freedom is self-interest, it is easily angered, it keeps a record of wrongs. 6 Freedom does not delight in truth but constructs truth . 7 It always protects me, always trusts the GOP, always means I'm right, always is proof that this is a Christian nation.

8 Freedom 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. 9 For we rule the House in part and we rule the Senate in part, 10 but when the next election comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I voted like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see Tucker only as on a screen; then we shall see him face to face. Now we own the libs in part; then we shall own them fully, even as we will be in control.

13 And now these three remain: life, freedom (liberty) and happiness. But the greatest of these is freedom.