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 speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing 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.

Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could 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 sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.

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 makes no parade, 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;

is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing,

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

but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

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

It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

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 though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

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

For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;

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

but when the perfect is come, then the perfect 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 like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with 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 as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

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

Faith, Hope, Love endure - these three; but the greatest of these is Love.