Προς Κορινθιους Α΄ 13

1 Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, γέγονα χαλκὸς ἠχῶν ἢ κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2 καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω προφητείαν καὶ εἰδῶ τὰ μυστήρια πάντα καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γνῶσιν, καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω πᾶσαν τὴν πίστιν ὥστε ὄρη μεθιστάναι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐθέν εἰμι.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 κἂν κἂν ψωμίσω πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντά μου, καὶ ἐὰν παραδῶ τὸ σῶμά μου ἵνα (καυχήσωμαι, *N(K)(o)*) ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι.

And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

4 Ἡ ἀγάπη μακροθυμεῖ, χρηστεύεται, ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ ζηλοῖ, ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ περπερεύεται, οὐ φυσιοῦται,

Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

5 οὐκ ἀσχημονεῖ, οὐ ζητεῖ τὰ ἑαυτῆς, οὐ παροξύνεται, οὐ λογίζεται τὸ κακόν,

does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

6 οὐ χαίρει ἐπὶ τῇ ἀδικίᾳ, συγχαίρει δὲ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ,

does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

7 πάντα στέγει, πάντα πιστεύει, πάντα ἐλπίζει, πάντα ὑπομένει.

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

8 ἡ ἀγάπη οὐδέποτε (πίπτει. *N(k)O*) Εἴτε δὲ προφητεῖαι, καταργηθήσονται· εἴτε γλῶσσαι, παύσονται· εἴτε γνῶσις, καταργηθήσεται.

Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

9 ἐκ μέρους (γὰρ *NK(o)*) γινώσκομεν καὶ ἐκ μέρους προφητεύομεν·

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

10 ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ τὸ τέλειον, (τότε *K*) τὸ ἐκ μέρους καταργηθήσεται.

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

11 ὅτε ἤμην νήπιος, ἐλάλουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐφρόνουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐλογιζόμην ὡς νήπιος· ὅτε (δὲ *k*) γέγονα ἀνήρ, κατήργηκα τὰ τοῦ νηπίου.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

12 βλέπομεν γὰρ ἄρτι δι᾽ ἐσόπτρου ἐν αἰνίγματι, τότε δὲ πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον· ἄρτι γινώσκω ἐκ μέρους, τότε δὲ ἐπιγνώσομαι καθὼς καὶ ἐπεγνώσθην.

For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

13 Νυνὶ δὲ μένει πίστις, ἐλπίς, ἀγάπη, τὰ τρία ταῦτα· μείζων δὲ τούτων ἡ ἀγάπη.

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.