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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

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

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

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

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