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.

Though I could speak with the tongues of men, of angels, but have not love, I become as sounding brass, or a noisy 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 though I have prophecy, and know all secrets, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not 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 though I spend all my goods in feeding the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I am nothing profited.

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

Love suffers long, and is kind. Love envies not. Love does not vaunt; 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 behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil;

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

does not rejoice in iniquity, but greatly rejoices in the truth:

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

covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, 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, whether prophecies, they will be out of use: or foreign languages, they shall cease: or science, it shall be abolished.

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

For we know only in part, and prophesy in part.

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

But when perfection is come, then what is in part will be done 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 as a child, I conceived as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, 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 seek through a glass obscurely; but then, face to face: now, I know in part; but then, I shall fully know, even as I am fully known.

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

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