The Best Way of Life in Practice

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience

… it looks for a way of being constructive

It is not possessive

… does not pursue selfish advantage

… it is neither anxious to impress
nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance

Love has good manners

It is not touchy

It does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people

… it is glad with all good men when truth prevails

Love knows no limit to its endurance

… no end to its trust

… no fading of its hope

… it can outlast anything

It is … the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.

1st Letter of Saul of Tarsus, AKA “Paul,” to 1st Century Christians in Corinth

Phillips New Testament