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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

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

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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