13:1  If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

13:2  If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand 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 away all my goods, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but do not have love, I have gained nothing.

13:4  Love is patient and is kind; love envies not, does not brag about itself, is not puffed up.

13:5  Love does not behave disgracefully, does not seek its own things, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

13:6  Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth.

13:7  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

13:8  Love never fails. But whether there be prophecies, they shall cease; whether there be languages, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

13:9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

13:10  But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be set aside.

13:11  When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I set aside the things of a child.

13:12  For now we see through a glass darkly, but then we shall see face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know exactly as I have been known.

13:13  And now, these three remain: faith, hope and love; but the greatest of these is love.