more excellent
Chapter 13 continues the pneumatika begun in Chapter 12.
Gifts are good, but only if ministered in love. (1 Corinthians 13:1); (1 Corinthians 13:2).
Benevolence is good, but not apart from love. (1 Corinthians 13:3).
Love is described. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7).
Love is better than our present incomplete knowledge, (1 Corinthians 13:8-12),
and greater than even faith and hope (1 Corinthians 13:13).