1Co 1 Corinthians, chapter First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 13
If I were to have eloquence in human languages—even the language of angels—but have no love, then I would only be an echoing gong or a clashing cymbal. If I were to speak prophecies, to know every secret mystery and be completely knowledgeable, and if I were able to have so much faith I could move mountains, but have no love, then I am nothing. Mat 7:22If I were to donate everything I own to the poor, or if I were to sacrifice myself to be burned as a martyr, and have no love, then I gain nothing.Mat 6:1
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. Love is not boastful. Love is not proud. Pro 10:12; 1Pe 4:8; Php 2:3Love does not act improperly, or insist on having its own way. Love is not argumentative and doesn't keep a record of wrongs. Rom 15:1Love takes no delight in evil but celebrates the truth. Love never gives up, keeps on trusting, stays confident, and remains patient whatever happens.Gal 6:2
Love never fails. Prophecies will come to an end. Tongues will become silent. Knowledge will become useless. For our knowledge and our prophetic understanding are incomplete. 2Co 5:7But when completeness comes, then what is incomplete disappears. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I grew up I left behind such childlike ways. At the moment we peer into a mirror's dim reflection, but then we shall see face to face. For now I only have partial knowledge, but then I shall know completely, just as I am completely known. Php 3:12; 2Ti 2:19Trust, hope, and love last forever—but the most important is love.