something to ponder

I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels,
but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.
I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets;
I may have all the faith needed to move mountains—but if I have no love, I am nothing.
I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned—
but if I have no love, this does me no good. Love is patient and kind;
it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable;

love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.
Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. 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. For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial;
but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13:1-10‬ (‭GNT)