| Chapter 13 |
1 | If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. |
2 | And 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 have not love, I am nothing. |
3 | And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. |
4 | Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
5 | doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; |
6 | rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; |
7 | beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. |
8 | Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away. |
9 | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; |
10 | but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. |
11 | When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. |
12 | For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. |
13 | But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. |