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;

Though I could speak with the tongues of men, of angels, but have not love, I become as sounding brass, or a noisy 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 though I have prophecy, and know all secrets, and all knowledge; and though 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 though I spend all my goods in feeding the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I am nothing profited.

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

Love suffers long, and is kind. Love envies not. Love does not vaunt; is not puffed up;

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

does not behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil;

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

does not rejoice in iniquity, but greatly rejoices in the truth:

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

covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures 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 fails: but, whether prophecies, they will be out of use: or foreign languages, they shall cease: or science, it shall be abolished.

9 for we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

For we know only in part, and prophesy in part.

10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part will become useless.

But when perfection is come, then what is in part will 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 spoke as a child, I conceived as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I 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 seek through a glass obscurely; but then, face to face: now, I know in part; but then, I shall fully know, even as I am fully known.

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

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three: but the greatest of these is love.