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.

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 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.

And if I have [the gift of] 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 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 if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

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

Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, 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.

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

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

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

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

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

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 faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.

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

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

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

but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall 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 spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away 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 in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been known.

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

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.