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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

does not behave itself inappropriately, does not seek its own way, is not irritable, does not keep a record of wrongs;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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