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 speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing 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;

Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could 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 sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

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 makes no parade, is not puffed up,

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

is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing,

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

but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

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

It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

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 though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

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

For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;

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

but when the perfect is come, then the perfect 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 like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with 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 as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

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

Faith, Hope, Love endure - these three; but the greatest of these is Love.