哥林多前書 13

1 若能說人間的語言，和能說天使的語言，但我沒有愛，我就成了個發響的鈸。

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

2 我若能先知之恩，又明白一切奧秘和各種知識；我若有全備的信心，甚至能移山，但我沒有愛，我什麼也不算。

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

3 我若把全部的財產全施捨了，我若拾身投火被焚；但我沒有愛，為我毫無益利處。

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

4 愛是含忍的，愛是慈祥的，愛不嫉妒，不誇張，不自大，

Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

5 不作無禮的事，不求己益，不動怒，不圖謀惡事，

does nothing unbecoming, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

6 不以不義為樂，卻與真理同樂：

rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

7 凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盻望，凡事忍耐。

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

8 愛永存不杇，而先知之恩，終必消失；語言之恩，終必停止；知識之恩，終必消逝。

Love never fails; but whether there be gifts of prophecy, they shall have an end; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall have an end.

9 因為我們現在所知道的，只是局部的；

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

10 及至圓滿的一來到，局部的，就必要消逝。

but when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall have an end.

11 當我是孩子的時候，說話像孩子，看事像孩子，思想像孩子；幾時我月成了人，就把孩子的事丟棄了。

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the mind of a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 我們現在是藉著鏡子觀看，模糊不清，到那時，就要面對面的觀看了。我現在所認識的，只是是局部的，那時我就要全認清了，如同我被全認清一樣。

Now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I am known.

13 現今存在的，有信、望、愛這三樣，但其中最大的是愛。

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.