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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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 arrogant

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

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

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

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

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

But when the perfect comes, that which is incomplete will pass away.

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, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put away childish things.

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

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