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 with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling 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 [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, 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 bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, 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,

Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity 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 easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

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

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in 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;

Charity never faileth: but whether [there are] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there are] languages, they shall cease; whether [there is] knowledge, it shall vanish 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, then 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 spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought 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 see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.