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 in every tongue of men and of angels I spoke, and had not love, I should be as brass which soundeth, or a cymbal which giveth voice.
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 though there were in me prophecy, and I knew all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though there were in me all faith, as that I could remove the mountain, and love were not in me, I should be 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 all I have I make to feed the poor, and I deliver my body to burn, and love be not in me, I profit nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
LOVE is patient and benign; love envieth not; love is not tumultuous, nor inflated;
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
it acteth not with unseemliness, nor seeketh its own; it is not angry, nor thoughtful of evil;
6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
it rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
It endureth every thing, believeth every thing; it hopeth all, endureth all.
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 falleth; for prophecies shall be abolished, and tongues be silent, and knowledge be abolished:
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
for it is a little of much that we know, and a little of much we prophesy;
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
but when the perfection shall have come, then shall be abolished that which is little.
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, as a child I spake, and as a child I thought, and as a child I reasoned; but when I had become a man I abolished these things of childhood.
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.
But now as in a mirror we see in a figure; but then- the face before the face. Now I know a little of much; but then shall I know even as I am known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
For these are the three that remain, faith and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love.
