Here’s another passage of scripture that has come to mind a hundred times over the last few weeks, another passage that I memorized as a kids and heard at weddings but never really impacted my life in any significant way.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a; 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 in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, beleives all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (ESV).
Words that need no explanation, give no excuse, require no interpretation.