1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, and do not have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging 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 if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and do not have love, I am nothing;

And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

3 and if I give away all my goods to feed others, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and do not have love, I am profited nothing.

And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5 does not act unseemly, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not impute evil,

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

6 [does] not rejoice over unrighteousness, and rejoices with the truth;

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

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

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Love never fails; and whether [there be] prophecies, they will become useless; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will become useless;

Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] 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 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part will become useless.

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

11 When I was a child, I was speaking as a child, I was thinking as a child, I was reasoning as a child, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the child;

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

12 for we now see obscurely through a mirror, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I will fully know, as I was also known;

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

13 and now there remains faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.