LOVE.

I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no LOVE, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preachings; I may have all the knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the Faith needed to move mountains - but if I have no LOVE, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned - but if I have no LOVE, this does me no good.

LOVE is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; LOVE is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; LOVE does not keep a record of wrongs; LOVE is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. LOVE never gives up; and its Faith, Hope, and Patience never fail.

LOVE is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.

When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways. What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. What I know now is only partial, then it will be complete - as complete as GOD's knowledge of me.

Meanwhile these three remain: Faith, Hope, and LOVE; and the greatest of them is LOVE.

1 Corinthians 13: 1-13