1 Corinthians 13:8
New Testament
4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.
Date: 55-57 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
Source
Pirkei Avot 5:16
Mishnah
Rabbinic
15 There are four types among those who sit before the sages: a sponge, a funnel, a strainer and a sieve.A sponge, soaks up everything; A funnel, takes in at one end and lets out at the other; A strainer, which lets out the wine and retains the lees; A sieve, which lets out the coarse meal and retains the choice flour. 16 All love that depends on a something, [when the] thing ceases, [the] love ceases; and [all love] that does not depend on anything, will never cease. What is an example of love that depended on a something? Such was the love of Amnon for Tamar. And what is an example of love that did not depend on anything? Such was the love of David and Jonathan.
Date: 190-230 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
Source
Notes and References
"... Love: Here in the Greco-Roman sense of agape. Compare with 1 Corinthians 13. When the thing is lost, the love is lost: If love is based upon some instrumental purpose, other than the well-being of the beloved, it will evaporate with the loss of the ulterior motive ..."
Cohen, Shaye J. D.
The Oxford Annotated Mishnah: A New Translation of the Mishnah with Introductions and Notes
(p. 747) Oxford University Press, 2022
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