The following verses have a completely new meaning to me, especially in the first sentence or two - if I knew every language without learning them, given the toil and sacrifice of hours my team is making to learn Slovak, and the difficulty of understanding cases and adjective endings and future tense and past tense and koho/?o, and all of the vocabulary. But what if I automatically knew all of these things without having to learn it, it would mean absolutely nothing without love.

If I had the gift of being able to speak in other languages without learning them and could speak in every language there is in all of heaven and earth, but didn’t love others, I would only be making noise. If I had the gift of prophecy and knew all about what is going to happen in the future, knew everything about everything but didn’t love others, what good would it do? Even if I had the gift of faith so that I couls speak to a mountain and make it move, I would still be worth nothing at all without love. If I gave everything I have to poor people, and if I were burned alive for preaching the Gospel but didn’t love others, it would be of no value whatsoever.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3