How is love greater than faith if it's only by faith that we receive salvation in Christ?

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 
But  in  2 Timothy says
That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
Faith in Jesus Christ is the only way for salvation, that's what N.T says. So if it requires faith to believe in Jesus, how can love be greater than faith?

1 Corinthians 13:13

MODERNGREEK - ¹³ Τωρα δε μενει πιστις, ελπις, αγαπη, τα τρια ταυτα. μεγαλητερα δε τουτων ειναι η αγαπη.

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