LOVE is patient and kind;

LOVE is not jealous or boastful;

it is not arrogant or rude.

LOVE does not insist on its own way;

it is not irritable or resentful;

it does not rejoice at wrong,

but rejoices in the right.

LOVE bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.

LOVE never ends …

So faith, hope, love abide, these three,

but the greatest of these

is LOVE.

                                             1 Corinthians 13:4-8a, 13