1 Corinthians 13

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

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。

2 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.

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。

3 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.

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。

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

愛是含忍的，愛是慈祥的，愛不嫉妒，不誇張，不自大，

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

不作無禮的事，不求己益，不動怒，不圖謀惡事，

6 does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

不以不義為樂，卻與真理同樂：

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

凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盻望，凡事忍耐。

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

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。

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

因為我們現在所知道的，只是局部的；

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

及至圓滿的一來到，局部的，就必要消逝。

11 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.

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。

12 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.

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。

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

現今存在的，有信、望、愛這三樣，但其中最大的是愛。