1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak with the tongues of humans and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, or a clanging cymbal.

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;

2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

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;

3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

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.

4 Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag, is not proud,

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

5 does not behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not irritable, does not keep a record of wrongs;

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

6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

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

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

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

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

Love never fails; and whether [there be] prophecies, they will become useless; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will become useless;

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

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

10 but when that which is complete has come, that which is partial will be done away with.

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

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become an adult, I have put away childish things.

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;

12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

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;

13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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