Nice Jesus: When Anon gets it Right
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Faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love. The problem is "love' is a pretty shite word, and a piss poor translation of caritas. Caritas is the love that teaches difficult children, the love that leads to an intervention, and the love that begs wayward brethren to return. It has nothing to do romance. In fact older Anglo Christians never said "faith, hope, and love, " they said "faith, hope, and charity." In the modern era I presume this linguistic shift was intentional.
The verse you're talking about is 1 Corinthians 13:13, and the word there is not "caritas", it's "agape".
https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1co/13/2/ss1/t_conc_1075013
Good point. I've imposed the traditional virtues over scripture; a bad mistake. I think my point may still stand: "love" is still not a great word to stack against agape.