LOVE

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not LOVE, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know 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 if I give my body to be burned, but have not LOVE, it profiteth me nothing.

LOVE suffers long, and is kind;
LOVE envys not;
LOVE vaunteth not itself,
is not puffed up,
doth not behave itself unseemly,
seeketh not its own, is not provoked,
taketh not account of evil;
rejoiceth not in unrighteousness,
but rejoiceth with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

LOVE never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away;
whether there be tongues, they shall cease;
whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is LOVE.