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;

For if I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am but 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 am acquainted with all mysteries, and all knowledge: yea if I have faith, even. to 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 give all my substance to feed the poor, and my body to be burnt, and have not charity, 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,

Charity beareth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity is not insolent, 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 indecently, is not selfish, is not easily provoked,

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

suspecteth no evil, rejoiceth not at injustice, but rejoiceth in the truth:

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

covereth all faults, 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 as to prophecies, they shall be abolished; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be laid aside.

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

For now we know but in part, and we prophesy but 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 shall come, then that which is defective shall be laid aside.

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 spake as a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside 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 we see now as through a mirror obscurely: but then we shall see face to face. Now I know but in part, but then I shall know even as 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, love, these three graces; but the greatest of these is love.