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. |