LOVE

If I would be able to speak all the languages
and would be a perfect communicator
but could not love people,
I would only produce noise
and would never reach others.

If I love people, I will have patience with them,
I will treat them fairly,
I will not always demonstrate my own superiority.
I will not talk down to others,
I will talk with them, not to them.

If I love people, I can understand their feelings,
I do not always seek my own advantages,
I can control my ego,
I will not dump my anger on others.

If I love people, I will not be resentful,
I will not always remind others of their mistakes,
I will not rejoice when others fail
but will rejoice when others succeed.

If I love people, I will never give up on them,
I will trust them and give them credit.
I will give them hope and encouragement.

1 Cor. 13, reworded by Siegfried Buchholz