1 Corinthians 13

1 Though I spake with the tonges of me and angels and yet had no love I were eve as soundinge brasse: or as a tynklynge Cymball.

If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal.

2 And though I coulde prophesy and vnderstode all secretes and all knowledge: yee yf I had all fayth so that I coulde move moutayns oute of ther places and yet had no love I were nothynge.

And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing.

3 And though I bestowed all my gooddes to fede ye poore and though I gave my body even that I burned and yet had no love it profeteth me nothinge.

And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing.

4 Love suffreth longe and is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth not dealeth

Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.

5 not dishonestly seketh not her awne is not provoked to anger thynketh not evyll

Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil.

6 reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in ye trueth

Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.

7 suffreth all thynge beleveth all thynges hopeth all thynges endureth in all thynges.

Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.

8 Though that prophesyinge fayle other tonges shall cease ) or knowledge vanysshe awaye yet love falleth never awaye

Charity is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed.

9 For oure knowledge is vnparfect and oure prophesyinge is vnperfet.

For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part.

10 But when yt which is parfect is come then yt which is vnparfet shall be done awaye.

But when the perfect arrives, the imperfect passes away.

11 When I was a chylde I spake as a chylde I vnderstode as a childe I ymagened as a chylde. But assone as I was a man I put awaye childesshnes.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child.

12 Now we se in a glasse even in a darke speakynge: but then shall we se face to face. Now I knowe vnparfectly: but then shall I knowe even as I am knowen.

Now we see through a glass darkly. But then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I am known.

13 Now abideth fayth hope and love even these thre: but the chefe of these is love.

But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.