Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 1Pe 4:81Ti 1:5Gal 5:221Co 13:8Gal 5:61Co 13:2-31Co 8:12Pe 2:18 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1Jn 4:81Co 13:31Jn 4:20-21Mat 17:20Mat 21:211Co 16:221Co 12:8-101Co 13:1 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, 1 but have not love, I gain nothing. Jas 2:14-17Jhn 15:13Mat 23:5Mat 6:1-4Mat 7:22-231Ti 4:8Gal 5:26Heb 13:9
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 1Pe 4:8Eph 4:32Gal 5:21-22Pro 10:12Col 3:121Jn 4:11Pro 17:9Jas 3:14-17 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. 1Co 10:24Php 2:3-51Jn 3:16-17Jas 1:19Php 2:21Gal 6:1-2Php 4:8Rom 15:1-2 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. Rom 12:93Jn 1:3-42Jn 1:4Rom 1:322Th 2:12Hos 4:8Pro 14:9Luk 19:41-42 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1Pe 4:81Co 13:41Pe 2:242Ti 2:24Pro 10:12Gal 6:21Co 9:12Sng 8:6-7
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. 1Co 13:131Co 13:1-2Gal 5:61Co 13:10Act 2:4Heb 8:131Co 12:101Co 12:28-30 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, Col 2:2-3Eph 3:18-191Co 2:9Psa 139:61Co 13:121Co 8:2Job 11:7-8Mat 11:27 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. 1Co 13:12Isa 60:19-202Co 5:7-8Isa 24:23Rev 22:4-5Rev 21:22-23
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 set aside childish ways. 1Co 14:201Co 3:1-2Gal 4:1Ecc 11:10 Now we see but a dim 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. 1Jn 3:22Co 3:181Co 13:9-10Php 3:12Rev 22:42Co 5:7Mat 5:8Jas 1:23
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love. 1Co 16:14Col 3:141Jn 4:7-181Co 13:1-8Gal 5:6Mrk 12:29-31Php 1:9Lam 3:21-26