1 Corinthians 13:13
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
The graces of faith, hope and love towards God and our fellow humans are preferable to all the spiritual gifts, and the greatest of these is love.
In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul explained to the church in Corinth that there was something better than the spiritual gifts they had received. The spiritual gifts were wisdom, knowledge, faith, the gift of healing, the working of miracles, prophecy, the discerning of spirits, different kinds of tongues and the interpretation of tongues (1 Corinthians 12:8-10). The people of the Corinthian church had an abundance of these spiritual gifts, but which of the gifts were superior to other gifts became a source of divisiveness among them (1 Corinthians 12:12-31).
Paul tells the Corinthians that three principal graces – faith, hope and love – are superior to all the spiritual gifts. Some commentators believe that Paul only named three spiritual gifts – prophecy, tongues, and knowledge – because these three gifts emphasized the revelation of God.