And I will show you a still more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 12:31b ESV

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.2And if I have[a]prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,[b]so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.3[c]If I give away all I have, and[d]if I deliver up my body to be burned,but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV

4[e]Love is patient and[f]kind; love[g]does not envy or boast; it[h]is not arrogant5or rude. It[i]does not insist on its own way; it[j]is not irritable or resentful;6it[k]does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but[l]rejoices with the truth.7[m]Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,[e]endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV

8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.9For[n]we know in part and we prophesy in part,10but[o]when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.12For[p]now we see in a mirror dimly, but[q]then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as[r]I have been fully known.13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:8-13 ESV