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 may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling 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 the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not divine 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 all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing.

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

Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of 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 behave itself uncomely, seeks not its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

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

it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but it rejoices in the truth;

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

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

Divine love never falls: but whether there are prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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

For we know 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 the perfect may come, that which is in part shall 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 an infant, I talked like an infant, I thought like an infant, I reasoned like an infant: when I became a man, I put away the things of the infant.

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 through a mirror in an enigma; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know perfectly even as I am perfectly known.

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

But now abide faith, hope, divine love, these three; but the greatest of these is divine love.