Read the Bible

¹ What if I could speak
all languages
of humans
    and of angels?
If I did not love others,
    I would be nothing more
than a noisy gong
    or a clanging cymbal.
² What if I could prophesy
and understand all secrets
    and all knowledge?
And what if I had faith
    that moved mountains?
I would be nothing,
    unless I loved others.
³ What if I gave away all
    that I owned
and let myself
    be burned alive?^[a]
I would gain nothing,
    unless I loved others.
⁴ Love is kind and patient,
never jealous, boastful,
    proud, or ⁵ rude.
Love isn't selfish
    or quick tempered.
It doesn't keep a record
    of wrongs that others do.
⁶ Love rejoices in the truth,
    but not in evil.
⁷ Love is always supportive,
loyal, hopeful,
    and trusting.
⁸ Love never fails!

Everyone who prophesies
    will stop,
and unknown languages
will no longer
    be spoken.
All that we know
    will be forgotten.
⁹ We don't know everything,
and our prophecies
    are not complete.
¹⁰ But what is perfect
    will someday appear,
and what isn't perfect
    will then disappear.

¹¹ When we were children,
we thought and reasoned
    as children do.
But when we grew up,
    we quit our childish ways.
¹² Now all we can see of God
is like a cloudy picture
    in a mirror.
Later we will see him
    face to face.
We don't know everything,
    but then we will,
just as God completely
    understands us.
¹³ For now there are faith,
    hope, and love.
But of these three,
    the greatest is love.