Love is patient and kind;

 love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.

 Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or

 resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

 Love bears all things, believe all things, hopes all things, end-

 ures all things.

 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away;

 as for tongue, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass 

 away.

 When 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.

 For now we see in  a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I

 know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have be- en  fully understood.

 So faith, hope, love, abide, these three;

 but the greatest of these is love.