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;

Suppose that I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. But if I do not have love, I have become 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;

Suppose that I have the gift of prophecy and understand all hidden truths and knowledge, and that I have all faith so as to remove mountains. But if I 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.

Suppose that I give all I own to feed the poor, and that I give my body to be burned. But if I do not have love, I gain nothing.

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 arrogant

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

or rude. It is not self-serving. It is not easily angered, nor does it keep a count of wrongs.

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

It does not rejoice in unrighteousness. Instead, it rejoices in the truth.

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

Love 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 ends. If there are prophecies, they will pass away. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will pass 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 the perfect comes, that which is incomplete will pass 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, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, 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 see indirectly in a mirror, but then 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.

But now these three remain: faith, future confidence, and love. But the greatest of these is love.