If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. You are about to enter the highest human relationship, Christian Marriage. God has ordained that a man and a woman may enter into marriage together, pledging their love and promising fidelity each to the other, as long as both shall live. Instinctively you have turned to God and to the church as the setting to affirm this new covenant. The Christian marriage ceremony is a service of worship before God, normally conducted within the sanctuary of God.