Love.

  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 THE TRUTH WINS OUT.  

                                                                            Love never gives up,                                                       

                                                                            never loses faith, 

                                                                            

                                                                            is always hopeful, 

                                

                                                              and endures 

through every circumstance.

  

Three things will last forever—


         faith, 

hope, 

and love—


    
and the greatest of these is 

love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-7, 13