Bible reading help

Good old Corinthians for me! I'm the same as you - not a avid church goer but I still attend on an occasional basis -

1 Corinthians 13: verses 4-8a & 13

Love is patient and kind;

Love is not jealous or boastful;

It is not arrogant or rude.

Love does not insist on its own way

It is not irritable or resentful;

It does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

Love bears all things,

believes all things,

hopes all things,

endures all things.

Love never ends.

Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then we shall see face to face.

Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

So, faith, hope and love abide, these three;

but the greatest of these

is love.

Thanks penguin...that is like something i am after...nice and short and not too religious if u get my drift.

Im looking for one too but I think thats the one OH did as a reading at a pals wedding so dont want to repeat.... i've been on the lookout for the last few days but not having much luck x

My thoughts exactly!!!!! ?

It's so difficult...i asked for a poem instead but need at least one reading...keep the coming girls!!!!! (and boys) lol

I chose this for my wedding. Hope it helps someone:

A Reading from the Book of Ruth 1:16-17

But Ruth said, "Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you!
Where you go, I will go; Where you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
Where you die, I will die --there will I be buried.
May the Lord do thus and so to me,
and more as well, if even death parts me from you!"

Ideas on here...

http://www.cofe.anglican.org/lifeevents/weddings/musicreadings.html

We had Ecclesiastes 4....

9 Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their work:

10 If one falls down,
his friend can help him up.
But pity the man who falls
and has no one to help him up!

11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?

12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

We had Corinthians too.

We had OH's two sisters read these, one answers the other - our vicar described this as "very racy stuff" but in a good way!

Song of Solomon 2.10-13; 8.6,7

My beloved speaks and says to me:
'Arise, my love, my fair one,
and come away;
for now the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of singing has come,
and the voice of the turtle dove
is heard in our land.
The fig tree puts forth its figs,
and the vines are in blossom;
they give forth fragrance.
Arise, my love, my fair one,
and come away.'

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If one offered for love
all the wealth of one's house,
it would be utterly scorned

For the Gospel we had

I cant remember what goes on in a scots wedding......I think we're only going to have one reading though they are not compulsory either....but have asked his sister now so... I did like the solomon one.... often I read them and go 'eh???' its like shakespeare, all gobbeldy gook! lol

BUMP...anyone else??