Love is patient; love is kind.
Love is not jealous, it does not put on airs, it is not snobbish.
Love is never rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not prone to anger; neither
does it brood over injuries.
Love does not rejoice in what is wrong but rejoices with the truth.
There is no limit to love’s forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its power to
endure.
Love never fails.
There are in the end three things that last: faith, hope, and love, and the
greatest of these is love.
>From the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians
12:31 - 13:13 or 13:4-13
(Excerpts from the Second Reading, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, January
29, 1995)