1 Corinthians Chapter 13

¹ If I speak in the languages of people and angels, but don’t love, like a noisy gong or crashing cymbal I mean anything. ² If I prophesy, understand all mysteries, know everything, have enough faith to move mountains, but don’t love, I am nothing. ³ If I give everything I own to feed the poor and give up my body so I can take pride in doing it, but don’t love, I gain nothing.

            ⁴ Love is patient and kind, not jealous or proud. ⁵ It’s considerate, not selfish or easily offended; it doesn’t dwell on what’s wrong. ⁶ Love doesn’t enjoy doing people in; it enjoys the truth. ⁷ Love bears up under everything; it tends to trust; it hopes for the best. Love lasts.                                                      

⁸ Love never falls out of the picture. But prophesying will pass away; languages will stop; knowledge will disappear. ⁹ We know partially and prophecy partially. ¹⁰ But, when what’s final comes, what’s preliminary will disappear. ¹¹ When I was a kid, I talked like one, thought like one, reasoned like one. When I grew up, I quit doing what a kid does. ¹² We see in a mirror blurry now, but we’ll see directly then. I know partly now, but then I’ll know as I’m known. ¹³ There’s faith, hope, and love now—those three; but love is the most important.

1 Cor 12:31- 13:13