Love is never failing it goes the distance.  I like William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 to reinforce this:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

The irony of this sonnet is that I loved it as a teen and as a twenty-something.  I hated the inconstancy in the love I received.  I tested it to see if it would last.  And I was more changeable in my love than anyone else.  That love was not love because it altered when it alteration found.

1 Corinthians 13: 8-12

⁸Love 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. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Questions

1. What words show the longevity of love?
2. What words show the completeness of love?
3. What did the Corinthians see?  How would their vision change?
4. How has your love proved itself not love?
5. How wil your love endure?

Going Deeper

Romeo and Juliet; Anthony and Cleopatra; St. Peter and Jesus;  Mary and Jesus;  Watson and Holmes:  Which of these famous pairings show true love?  Which show a false love?