Now he has learned that they completely missed the point and refuse to administer to the salvation of sinners. He must now remind them in this second letter of the true purpose of the Gospel. He must remind them that the Way offers faith and hope to the oppressed but also that the most important thing is love. Paul dipped his reed into the lampblack ink and wrote on his papyrus scroll. And if I give away all in food all my goods, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love has patience, and is kind.
Love is not envious. Love is not vainglorious and not puffed up. Acts not unseemly, seeks not the things of its own, is not easily provoked, Thinks no evil. Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. All things bears, all things believes, all things hopes, all things endures.