Love is patient, love is kind.

     It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

​

It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,

     it is not easily angered,

          it keeps no record of wrongs.

 

Love does not delight in evil

      but rejoices with the truth.

 

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes,

      always perseveres.

​

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease;

     where there are tongues, they will be stilled;

         where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

 

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

      but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

 

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child,

      I reasoned like a child. When I became a man,

            I put the ways of childhood behind me.

 

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;

      then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part;

            then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

​

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.

          But the greatest of these is love.

                                                        1 Corinthians 13:4-13, NIV