1 Corinthians 13

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, 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 have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am 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 bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits 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 Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity brags not itself, is not puffed up,

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

5 Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

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

6 Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

does not rejoice at iniquity 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, endures all things.

8 Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall 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 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 is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

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

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

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 now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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 now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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