1 Corinthians 13

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels
but didn't love others
I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal
If I had the gift of prophecy,
and if I understood all of God's
secret plans and possessed all knowledge
and if I had such faith that I could move mountains
but didn't love others
I would be nothing
If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body
I could boast about it;
but if I didn't love others
I would have gained nothing.
Love is patient and kind
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude
It does not demand its own way
It is not irritable
and it keeps no record of being wronged
It does not rejoice about injustice
but rejoices whenever the truth wins out
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful
and endures through every circumstance
Prophecy and speaking in unknown
languages and special knowledge will become useless
But love will last forever!
Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete
And even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
But when the time of perfection comes,
these partial things will become useless
When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child
But when I grew up, I put away childish things
Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror
but then we will see everything with perfect clarity
All that I know now is partial and incomplete,
but then I will know everything
completely, just as God now knows me completely
Three things will last forever
faith, hope, and love
and the greatest of these is love.