What is love?
If I speak in tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith as to move mountains but not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I can boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Lover never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, the will cease; of knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside such childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, and love remains, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
-=Taken from the Bible, 1 Corinthians, 13, Chapter 13=-
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Lover never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, the will cease; of knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside such childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, and love remains, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
-=Taken from the Bible, 1 Corinthians, 13, Chapter 13=-