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。

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

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 if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to 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 if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may 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，

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

5 不作無禮的事，不求己益，不動怒，不圖謀惡事，

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

6 不以不義為樂，卻與真理同樂：

rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

7 凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盻望，凡事忍耐。

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

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。

The love doth never fail; and whether [there be] prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

9 因為我們現在所知道的，只是局部的；

for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

10 及至圓滿的一來到，局部的，就必要消逝。

and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part shall become useless.

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 babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

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。

for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

13 現今存在的，有信、望、愛這三樣，但其中最大的是愛。

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love — these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.