1 Corinthians 13 4-8

4    Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

5    It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  

6    Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 

7    It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

8   Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.


"Thus a man and a woman, who by the marriage covenant of conjugal love ‘are no longer two, but one flesh’ (Mt 19:6) render mutual help and service to each other through an intimate union of their persons and of their actions.”