13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. |
13:2 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 do not have love, I am nothing. |
13:3 And if I give all my possessions to feed {the poor,} and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. |
13:4 Love is patient, love is kind {and} is not jealous; love does not brag {and} is not arrogant, |
13:5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong {suffered,} |
13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; |
13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
13:8 Love never fails; but if {there are gifts of} prophecy, they will be done away; if {there are} tongues, they will cease; if {there is} knowledge, it will be done away. |
13:9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; |
13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. |
13:11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. |
13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. |
13:13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. |