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.
Though I speak in the ‘tongues’ of men, or even of angels, yet have not Love, I have become mere echoing brass, or a clanging 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.
Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not Love, 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.
Even though I dole my substance to the poor, even though I sacrifice my body, that I may boast, yet have not Love, it avails me nothing!
4 Love suffreth longe and is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth not dealeth
Love is long-suffering, and kind; Love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;
5 not dishonestly seketh not her awne is not provoked to anger thynketh not evyll
love is never self-seeking, never provoked, never reckons up her wrongs;
6 reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in ye trueth
love never rejoices at evil, but rejoices in the triumph of Truth;
7 suffreth all thynge beleveth all thynges hopeth all thynges endureth in all thynges.
love bears with all things, every trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient.
8 Though that prophesyinge fayle other tonges shall cease ) or knowledge vanysshe awaye yet love falleth never awaye
Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of ‘tongues,’ it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with.
9 For oure knowledge is vnparfect and oure prophesyinge is vnperfet.
For our knowledge is incomplete, and our preaching is incomplete,
10 But when yt which is parfect is come then yt which is vnparfet shall be done awaye.
but, when the Perfect has come, that which is incomplete will be done with.
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 talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways.
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.
As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then — face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I shall know in full, as I have been fully known.
13 Now abideth fayth hope and love even these thre: but the chefe of these is love.
Meanwhile Faith, Hope, and Love endure — these three, but the greatest of these is Love.
