what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

let all your things be done in love.

if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

my love is with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.