Love-less Virtue

Love makes all other virtues acceptable to God. Without love, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience, are basically self-serving. 'Love-less virtue' (if there is such a thing at all) may make a name for me: "He's a good person, a kind old soul." It may serve to make for a better and safer world to live in. It may help to convince me that I am benevolent in nature or that I am better than others around me who live differently than I do. Yet none of this makes love-less virtue acceptable to God. Wisdom lovingly reminds me, "Without love, I am nothing but a clanging gong."