I Cor. 13:13
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Why? because faith is believing what someone said and we can later come to know the truth first hand – and thus faith ends; hope involves a future desire that can be fulfilled – and thus hope ends; but love endures as long as we do… it does not depend on how long the object of our hope endures… we still love those that are no longer with us…
So love abides, while faith and hope may pass away…