Love is the greatest.

¹ If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,
but do not have love, I gain nothing ⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy,
it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but
rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always
perseveres. ⁸ 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.
⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes,
what is in part disappears. ¹¹ 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.
¹² 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.
¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.