3. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burnt — but if I have no love, this does me no good.
4. Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;
5. love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs;
6. love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.
7. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
8. Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass.
9. For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial;