*!Now I will show you the way which surpasses all the others. If I speak with
human tongues and angelic as well, but do no have love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging
cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and, with full knowledge, comprehend all mts-
teries, if I have faith great enough to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing
If I give everything I have to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but
have not love,I gain nothing.
Love is patient: love is kind. Love is not jealous, it does not put on airs,it is
not snobbish. Love is never rude, it is not self-seeking, itis not prone to anger: nei-
ther does it brood over injries. Love does not rejoice in what is wrong but rejoice
with the truth. There is no limit to love's forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its
power to endure.
Love never fails. Prophecies will cease,tongues will be silent, knowledge will pass
away. Our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesying is imperfect. When the perfect
comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child I used to talk like a child,
think like a child, reason like a child, when I becoame a man I put childish ways aside.
Now we se indistinctly, as in a mirror: then we shall see face to face. My knowledge
is imperfect now: then I shall know even as I am known, There are in the end three things that last: faith,hope,and love,and the greatest of these is love.