Corinthios I 13

1 si linguis hominum loquar et angelorum caritatem autem non habeam factus sum velut aes sonans aut cymbalum tinniens

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 et si habuero prophetiam et noverim mysteria omnia et omnem scientiam et habuero omnem fidem ita ut montes transferam caritatem autem non habuero nihil sum

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 et si distribuero in cibos pauperum omnes facultates meas et si tradidero corpus meum ut ardeam caritatem autem non habuero nihil mihi prodest

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 caritas patiens est benigna est caritas non aemulatur non agit perperam non inflatur

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

5 non est ambitiosa non quaerit quae sua sunt non inritatur non cogitat malum

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

6 non gaudet super iniquitatem congaudet autem veritati

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

7 omnia suffert omnia credit omnia sperat omnia sustinet

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

8 caritas numquam excidit sive prophetiae evacuabuntur sive linguae cessabunt sive scientia destruetur

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 ex parte enim cognoscimus et ex parte prophetamus

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

10 cum autem venerit quod perfectum est evacuabitur quod ex parte est

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

11 cum essem parvulus loquebar ut parvulus sapiebam ut parvulus cogitabam ut parvulus quando factus sum vir evacuavi quae erant parvuli

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 videmus nunc per speculum in enigmate tunc autem facie ad faciem nunc cognosco ex parte tunc autem cognoscam sicut et cognitus sum

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 nunc autem manet fides spes caritas tria haec maior autem his est caritas

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