These words spoken by Jesus were not merely utopian in their delivery, but they were lived out in His very actions. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love never fails.
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. . . By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for our brethren. . . He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this, the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.