1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

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

3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing,

6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

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

It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

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

For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;

10 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

but when the perfect is come, then the perfect will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

Faith, Hope, Love endure - these three; but the greatest of these is Love.