1 Corinthians 13:4–8a
(English Standard Version)
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (ESV)
Yes. But there are not stings attached. You don't need to change them in any way or anything like that. You just love them. You bring them up instead of down.
Well yes. I once loved a girl so much, I let her go live her own life. For some years I wondered of that, until I realized that, had we stayed together, the staying would have changed her, and either would have torn us apart in conflict, or destroyed what I loved in her.
True love, more perhaps than all our technology and achievement, is what makes us human. It is the greatest risk, the greatest joy, and the greatest torment that we can know, for the three are shades of each other.
(English Standard Version)
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (ESV)
True love, more perhaps than all our technology and achievement, is what makes us human. It is the greatest risk, the greatest joy, and the greatest torment that we can know, for the three are shades of each other.