But, as it is written, "No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him,"

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I have to the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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 pass away.

So now faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

Let all that you do be done in love.

If anyone does not love the Lordlet him be accursed. Come, O Lord!

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.