1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, (agape) I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling 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 move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, (agape) I am nothing.

3 If I give away all my possessions to feed others, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, (agape) it profits me nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It is not puffed up

Love (agape) suffers long, and is kind; love (agape) envies not; love (agape) vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

5 or rude. It does not seek its own way, it is not irritable, and it keeps no record of wrongs.

Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.

Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

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

Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

Love (agape) never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9 Now we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 Yet when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.

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

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, and I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see in a mirror by means of an obscure image, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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

And now abides faith, hope, love, (agape) these three; but the greatest of these is love. (agape)