Day 23: Words of love

1 Corinthians 13

 ¹If 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.
²If 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.
³If 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.

 ⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy,
it does not boast, it is not proud.
⁵It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 ⁸Love 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.
⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
¹⁰but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
¹¹When 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.
¹²For 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.