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 with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass 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 know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have 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 away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits 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 is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, 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,

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

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

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and 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 be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

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 complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

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 felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

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, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.