1 Corinthians 13

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

Though in every tongue of men and of angels I spoke, and had not love, I should be as brass which soundeth, or a cymbal which giveth voice.

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 don’t have love, I am nothing.

And though there were in me prophecy, and I knew all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though there were in me all faith, as that I could remove the mountain, and love were not in me, I should be nothing.

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

And if all I have I make to feed the poor, and I deliver my body to burn, and love be not in me, I profit nothing.

4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

LOVE is patient and benign; love envieth not; love is not tumultuous, nor inflated;

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

it acteth not with unseemliness, nor seeketh its own; it is not angry, nor thoughtful of evil;

6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

it rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.

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

It endureth every thing, believeth every thing; it hopeth all, endureth all.

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 falleth; for prophecies shall be abolished, and tongues be silent, and knowledge be abolished:

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

for it is a little of much that we know, and a little of much we prophesy;

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

but when the perfection shall have come, then shall be abolished that which is little.

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, as a child I spake, and as a child I thought, and as a child I reasoned; but when I had become a man I abolished these things of childhood.

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.

But now as in a mirror we see in a figure; but then- the face before the face. Now I know a little of much; 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.

For these are the three that remain, faith and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love.