1 Corinthians 13

1 Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angels, and haue not loue, I am as sounding brasse, or a tinkling cymbal.

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

2 And though I had the gift of prophecie, and knewe all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines and had not loue, I were nothing.

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.

3 And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

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.

4 Loue suffreth long: it is bountifull: loue enuieth not: loue doeth not boast it selfe: it is not puffed vp:

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

5 It doeth no vncomely thing: it seeketh not her owne things: it is not prouoked to anger: it thinketh not euill:

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

6 It reioyceth not in iniquitie, but reioyceth in the trueth:

does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

7 It suffreth all things: it beleeueth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.

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

8 Loue doeth neuer fall away, though that prophecyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.

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

9 For we knowe in part, and we prophecie in part.

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

10 But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shalbe abolished.

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

11 When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.

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.

12 For nowe we see through a glasse darkely: but then shall wee see face to face. Nowe I know in part: but then shall I know euen as I am knowen.

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.

13 And nowe abideth faith, hope and loue, euen these three: but the chiefest of these is loue.

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