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;

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.

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;

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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