Thanks be to God. Set your hearts on the greater gifts. I will show you the way, which surpasses all others. If I speak with human tongues and angelic as well, but do not know love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal. If I give everything to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind.
Love is not jealous, it does not put on airs, it is not snobbish. Love does not rejoice in what is wrong but rejoices with the truth. There is no limit to love's forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its power to endure. Love never fails. Prophecies will cease, tongues will be silent, and knowledge will pass away.