Chapter 13
1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’ t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal .
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 don’ t have love, I am nothing .
3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burnt , but don’ t have love, it profits me nothing .
4 Love is patient and is kind . Love doesn’ t envy . Love doesn’ t brag , is not proud ,
5 doesn’ t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’ t seek its own way, is not provoked , takes no account of evil ;
6 doesn’ t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things , believes all things , hopes all things , and endures all things .
8 Love never fails . But where there are prophecies , they will be done away with . Where there are various languages , they will cease . Where there is knowledge , it will be done away with .
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part ;
10 but when that which is complete has come , then that which is partial will be done away with .
11 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 a man, I have put away childish things .
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 , even as I was also fully known .
13 But now faith , hope , and love remain — these three . The greatest of these is love.