1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I give out all my goods as food, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
5 does not behave improperly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take account of evil;
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will be done away; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.
12 For now we see through a mirror, dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I also was fully known.
13 And now faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.