哥林多前书 13

1 我若能说万人的方言，并天使的话语，却没有爱，我就成了鸣的锣，响的钹一般。

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

2 我若有先知讲道之能，也明白各样的奥秘，各样的知识，而且有全备的信，叫我能够移山，却没有爱，我就算不得什么。

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 我若将所有的周济穷人，又舍己身叫人焚烧，却没有爱，仍然与我无益。

And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

4 爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈；爱是不嫉妒；爱是不自夸，不张狂，

Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

5 不做害羞的事，不求自己的益处，不轻易发怒，不计算人的恶，

does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

6 不喜欢不义，只喜欢真理；

does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

7 凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。

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

8 爱是永不止息。先知讲道之能终必归于无有；说方言之能终必停止；知识也终必归于无有。

Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

9 我们现在所知道的有限，先知所讲的也有限，

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

10 等那完全的来到，这有限的必归于无有了。

but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.

11 我作孩子的时候，话语像孩子，心思像孩子，意念像孩子，既成了人，就把孩子的事丢弃了。

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

12 我们如今仿佛对着镜子观看，模糊不清，到那时就要面对面了。我如今所知道的有限，到那时就全知道，如同主知道我一样。

For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

13 如今常存的有信，有望，有爱这三样，其中最大的是爱。

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.