Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts: faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love!

 

Brothers and sisters:

Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts.

But I shall show you a still more excellent way.

If I speak in human and angelic tongues

but do not have love,

I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy

and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge;

if I have all faith so as to move mountains,

but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give away everything I own,

and if I hand my body over so that I may boast

but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.

It is not jealous, love is not pompous,

it is not inflated, it is not rude,

it does not seek its own interests,

it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,

it does not rejoice over wrongdoing

but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing;

if tongues, they will cease;

if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

For we know partially and we prophesy partially,

but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

When I was a child, I used to talk as a child,

think as a child, reason as a child;

when I became a man, I put aside childish things.

At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,

but then face to face.

At present I know partially;

then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.

So faith, hope, love remain, these three;

but the greatest of these is love.

~1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13

Only love matters! St. Paul talks about this a lot in the Bible, it is so true, you can be and do all, but if you do not do it with love, nothing else matters! It is all about love! We even see this today with priests, clergy, and the cloth as a whole, they are supposed to represent Jesus and be all about love, but if a priest cannot love and show love to all his parishioners, then he has nothing, like St. Paul talks about. The singing group For King and Country have a nice song about this Bible verse, The Proof of Your Love.  Love is what really matters! 

For King and Country, The Proof of Your Love on GodTube