1 Corinthians 13

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as sounding brass, and tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all manner of science; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

And if I deal out all my goods in alms, and deliver up my body that I should be burned, but have not love, I am nothing advantaged by it.

4 Love suffereth long, is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not herself, is not puffed up,

Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated with pride,

5 doth not behave herself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, maketh no account of an injury,

doth not act unseemly, seeketh not her own advantage, is not passionate, thinketh no evil;

6 rejoiceth not at iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth,

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Love never faileth; but whether there are prophesyings, they will come to an end; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away.

Love never faileth: but if there be prophetic gifts, they shall be no more; if tongues, they shall cease; if science, it shall vanish away.

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

For we know partially, and prophesy partially.

10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part will be done away.

But when that which is perfect cometh, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the feelings of a child, I thought as a child; since I have become a man, I have put away the things of the child.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I grew a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see in a mirror, obscurely; but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known.

For now we see by reflected light, indistinctly; but then face to face: now I know partially; but then shall I know even as I am known.

13 And now there abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greater of these is love.