1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging 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 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 don’t have 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 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burnt, but don’t have love, it profits 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 is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

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

5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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

6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in the truth;

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

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

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

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

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 felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

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, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also 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 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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