What is love?

In Maggie's Farm, Bird Dog posts what to me is one of the most beautiful scripture in the Bible.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13


13:1 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.


13:2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.


13:3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.


13:4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant


13:5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;


13:6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.


13:7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.


13:8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.


13:9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part;


13:10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.


13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.


13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.


13:13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.