1 Corinthians 13
1 If I can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet or a clanging cymbal.
如果我能熟练讲述这世间甚至是天使的语言，但没有爱，我的语言也不过就像发出回响的锣，或者发出碰撞声的钹。
2 If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing.
如果我可以说出预言，知晓所有奥秘和所有的知识，拥有可以移动山峦的信心，但没有爱，我就一无是处。
3 And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing.
我若把自己拥有的一切分给穷困之人，或如被焚烧的殉道者舍弃自己的生命，但没有爱，我什么也得不到。
4 Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.
爱是耐心和善良。爱是不嫉妒、不吹嘘、不傲慢。
5 She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.
爱是不做错误之举，不会固守自己的方式。爱是不会轻易动怒，对他人的过错不记仇。
6 She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth.
爱不会因罪恶而喜悦，只喜欢真理。
7 She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.
爱是不放弃，是坚守信念，是保持信心，是时刻保持耐心。
8 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.
爱永生不息。预言终会结束，语言终将沉默，知识最终也会失去它的用途。
9 For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying;
我们对知识和语言的理解非常片面。
10 but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end.
等结束终将来临，这片面的理解也将消失。
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.
如果是孩子，其说话、思想和反应就要像个孩子。但孩子长大后，就要丢弃一切孩子气的行为。
12 For the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled; but then we shall see them face to face. For the present the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
此刻我们就像窥视以免镜子模糊的反光，但很快，我们就要彼此相见了。我现在所知仅为一部分，到时候就会知晓一切，好像完全知道我一样。
13 And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.
信任、希望和爱将永续存在，但最重要的仍然是爱。
