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 with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, 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.

And 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 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 if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

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

Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not 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;

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

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

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

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

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth 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 faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done 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 that which is perfect is 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 a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have 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 in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been known.

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

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.