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

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

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

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

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

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

but rejoices when the truth rejoices.

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

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

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 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there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.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 perfect is come, that which is in part will be done away.

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

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