I love you. I will always try to be patient and kind, rather than envious or boastful. I will not put on airs, nor behave myself unseemly, nor keep insisting upon my rights. I will not be provoked to anger, nor harbor resentment by taking account of fancied evils. I will rejoice, not over unrighteousness, but only with the truth. I will try to bear all things and to endure any fate which may come to us, and in spite of change, to believe in you and to hope for our happiness together. I shall never fail you. This is what I mean when I say, "I love you."

--Paul of Tarsus
[arr. Elmo A. Robinson]