1 Corinthians 13

1 Although with the tongues of men, I be speaking, and of messengers, and have not, love, I have become resounding brass, or a clanging cymbal;

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.

2 And, though I have [the gift of] prophesying, and know all sacred secrets, and all knowledge, —and though I have all faith, so as to be removing mountains, and have not, love, I am, nothing;

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

3 And, though I morsel out all my goods, —and though I deliver up my body, that I may boast, and have not, love, I am profited, nothing.

And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

4 Love, is patient, is gracious. Love, is not envious, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

5 Acteth not unbecomingly, seeketh not her own things, is not easily provoked, imputeth not that which is base,

is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing,

6 Rejoiceth not over unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in sympathy with truth, —

but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

7 All things, covereth, all things, believeth, all things, hopeth, all things, endureth.

It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

8 Love, at no time, faileth; —but, whether prophesyings, they shall be done away, whether tongues, they shall cease, whether gaining knowledge, it shall be done away;

Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

9 For, in part, are we gaining knowledge, and, in part, are we prophesying, —

For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;

10 But, as soon as that which is complete is come, that which is in part, shall be done away.

but when the perfect is come, then the perfect will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to prefer as child, to reason as a child: now I have become a man, I have laid aside the things of the child!

When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

12 For we see, as yet, through a dim window, obscurely, but, then, face to face: as yet, I gain knowledge, in part, but, then, shall I fully know, even as I was also fully known.

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

13 But, now abide—faith, hope, love, —these three; but, the greatest of these, is, love.

Faith, Hope, Love endure - these three; but the greatest of these is Love.