Love

If I speak human or angelic languages

but do not have love

I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy

and understand all mysteries

and all knowledge,

and if I have all faith

so that I can move mountains

but do not have love, I am nothing. 

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,

and if I give my body in order to boast

but do not have love, I am nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.

Love does not envy,

is not boastful, is not conceited, 

does not act improperly.

is not selfish, is not provoked,

and does not keep a record of wrongs,

Love finds no joy in unrighteousness

but rejoices in truth.

It bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all thing. 

Love never ends.

But as for prophecies,

They will come to an end;

as for languages, they will cease;

as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

For we know in part, 

and we prophesy in part. 

But when the perfect comes,

the partial will come to an end.

When I was a child, 

I spoke as a child,

I thought like a child,

I reasoned like a child.

When I become a man,

I put aside childish things.

For now we see indistinctly as in a mirror

But then face to face.

Now I know is part, 

but then I will know fully,

as I am fully known.

Now these three remain:

faith, hope, and love.

But the greatest of these is love.

I Corinthians 13 : 1 – 13 ( Holman Christian Standard Bible)