1 Corinthians 13

It doesn't really matter what you have if you don't have love. Paul gives a few examples here. You could have the gift of gab, prophetic powers or humble sacrifice but it all doesn't matter if you don't have love.

Well, if love is so important, what is love? Paul goes on to describe love in this popular passage. What's interesting is that the next paragraph starts by saying that "love never ends", but that is sometimes included in a quote of this passage without the rest of that paragraph. I guess it's nice to end off with the fact that love never fails, but what about the rest of the paragraph? There are a number of other things that are presented that will pass away, but love will not pass away. We know and prophecy in part, but they will pass away when the perfect comes. Paul describes this by talking about a child who grows up into a man. A man puts off his childish ways. Similarly, this is similar to seeing dimly in a mirror, but later seeing clearly face to face. All this to describe how love will not pass away and how love is good. As Paul said in the beginning of this chapter, it really doesn't matter if you can do this or that if you don't have love.