1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2And if I have prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3And if I give away all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind; it is not jealous; love does not boast, it is not puffed up,
5it does not behave improperly, it does not seek its own things, it is not provoked, it keeps no account of the wrong done to it,
6it does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices together with the truth;
7it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will be abolished; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be abolished.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be abolished.
11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I set aside the things of the child.
12For now we see through a mirror, in an enigma, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.
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