< 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.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling 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.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and 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.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me 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 suffereth long, is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not herself, is not puffed up,
5 does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,
doth not behave herself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, maketh no account of an injury,
6 does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,
rejoiceth not at iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth,
7 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 whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.
Love never faileth; but whether there are prophesyings, they will come to an end; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will 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 that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.
but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part will be done 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 spoke as a child, I had the feelings of a child, I thought as a child; since I have become a man, I have put away the things of the child.
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.
For now we see in a mirror, obscurely; but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.
And now there abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.