1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

4 Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

5 does not behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

does nothing unbecoming, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

Love never fails; but whether there be gifts of prophecy, they shall have an end; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall have an end.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

but when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall have an end.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the mind of a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I am known.

13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.