SCRIPTURE
I Corinthians 13: 1-13
If
I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a
noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as
to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give
away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do
not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient; love is kind; love
is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist
on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not
rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for
tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9
For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when
the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a
child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child;
when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we
see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in
part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And
now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.