The love that Paul is dealing with in this chapter consists in good will aimed at the welfare of another, in wanting and doing what is beneficial for the other. This is what you ought to be pursuing. Then Paul writes of love from three different perspectives. First of all, all other gifts and virtues are worthless without love. I may have, they don't amount to much without love, without generosity toward our neighbor.
Love is willing to bear hardships without complaint, to ease others' pain.
It is not self-centered, boastful, easily offended. It is not judgmental or suspicious or cynical. Finally, he deals with the permanence and maturity that characterize love. Love is not some transient and partial gift that serves only a limited purpose like prophecy or speaking in tongues or having great knowledge. It carries us beyond spiritual infancy to full and lasting maturity in the Lord.