See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant. If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have 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 do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Messiah. And the child's father and mother were amazed at what was being said about him. There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of eighty-four.