1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have become like a loud brass instrument, or a clanging cymbal.
2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
3. And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
4. Love suffers long, and is kind; love neither envies nor boasts, love is not proud,
5. Does not behave itself inappropriately or seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
6. Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7. Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8. Love never fails: but if there are prophecies, they shall pass away; if there are tongues, they shall cease; if there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10. But when that which is perfect comes, then that which is in part shall be taken away.
11. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12. For now we see through a glass dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.