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 in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong 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;

If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have 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.

If I give away all my possessions to feed others, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

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

Love is patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It is not puffed up

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

or rude. It does not seek its own way, it is not irritable, and it keeps no record of wrongs.

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

It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.

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

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and 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 as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

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

Now 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.

Yet when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.

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, I thought like a child, and I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

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 by means of an obscure image, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

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

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