Sex+without+Love

=**1 Corinthians 13:3-13**= == knowledge, it will be done away.
 * 3.)** And if I give all my possessions to feed //the poor,// and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
 * 4.)** Love is patient, love is kind //and// is not jealous; love does not brag //and// is not arrogant,
 * 5.)** does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong //suffered,//
 * 6.)** does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
 * 7.)** bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
 * 8.)** Love never fails; but if //there are gifts of// prophecy, they will be done away; if //there are// tongues, they will cease; if //there is//
 * 9.)** For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
 * 10.)** but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
 * 11.)** When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
 * 12.)** For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
 * 13.)** But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

This passage of the bible tells us the way that love is supposed to be, which appears to be similar to the speaker's thinking. She says that they are the true religious, who love the priest and not the God. The speaker in "Sex Without Love" is struggling to understand how two people could be so intimate, without having love between them. Verse 7, says that love bears all things. When people have sex and are not in love, they bear nothing but their clothes and their bodies. They cannot know each other, therefore, they cannot love one another. The speaker also says that they are alone and know it and that they do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure. When some of my friends read this poem they got angry and defensive, which tells me that people who make sex without love are actually longing to be loved. The people who try to hide it act out in different ways, but secretly hope for the same affectionate feelings as the rest of us. Perhaps, for one night, they do experience the love between one another.

Works Cited: __The Holy Bible__, King James Version. New York: Oxford University Press, 1909. The image of the holy bible can be found at the christian website, http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Bible/1611_authorized_king_james.htm The image of the rose on the bible can be found at the website [], discussing one of the many christian minestries.