1 Corinthians 13

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

If I could speak in every tongue of men, and in that of angels, and there should be no love in me, I should be like brass that resoundeth, or the cymbal that maketh a noise.

2 And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

And if there should be in me the gift of prophecy, and I should understand all the mysteries, and every science; and if there should be in me all faith, so that I could move mountains, and love should not be in me, I should be nothing.

3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

And if I should feed out to the destitute all I possess; and if I should give my body to be burned; and there should be no love in me, I gain nothing.

4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Love is long-suffering, and is kind; love is not envious; love is not boisterous; and is not inflated;

5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

and doth nothing that causeth shame; and seeketh not her own; is not passionate; and thinketh no evil;

6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all, and endureth all.

8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.

Love will never cease. But prophesyings will end; and tongues will be silent; and knowledge will vanish.

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

For we know but partially; and we prophesy but partially.

10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

But when completeness shall come, then that which is partial will vanish away.

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

When I was a child, I talked as a child, and I reasoned as a child, and I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside the things of childhood.

12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

And now we see, as by a mirror, in similitude; but then face to face: now I know partially; but then shall I know, just as I am known.

13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

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