Love

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy,  it does not boast,
it is not proud.  It is not rude,
it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes
always perseveres.

Love never fails.  But where there are
prophecies,  they will cease; where there
are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will come to pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes,
the imperfect disappears.

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 put childish ways
behind me.  Now we see but a poor reflection;
then we shall see face to face.  Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully, even as I am full known.

And now these three remain:  faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.

NIV... I CORINTHIANS  13: 4-13