1 Corinthians 13:2

2If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.Matt 7:22; 17:20; Mark 11:23; Luke 17:6; 1Cor 12:8-10, 28; 14:1

2 Peter 1:9

9For the person who lacks these qualities is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten the cleansing that he has received from his past sins.Eph 5:26; Heb 9:14; 1John 1:7

1 John 3:14-15

14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love
Other mss. read doesn't love his brother
remains in death.1John 2:9-11
15Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.Matt 5:21-22; Gal 5:21; 1John 4:20; Rev 21:8
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