"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not proud,
Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own,is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs.
Rejoices not in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
Always protects, always believes, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall be stilled; whether there be knowledge, it shall pass away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
But when that which is perfect is come, that which is imperfect shall disappear.
When I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I put childish ways behind me.
For now we see in a mirror, poor reflection; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known
But now abides faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
-1 Corinthians 13
