1Co 1 Corinthians, chapter First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 13
A More Excellent Way
If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have complete faith so as to move mountains, yet do not have love, I am nothing.
And if I give away all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy; it does not boast, it is not puffed up with arrogance,
it does not behave improperly; it does not seek its own interests, it is not provoked, it does not keep a record of wrongs;
it does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be brought to an end. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,
but when the complete comes, the partial will be brought to an end.
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 away childish things.
For now we see through a mirror obscurely, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, love. But the greatest of these is love.