| 1. | but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. |
| 2. | And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. |
| 3. | If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. |
| 4. | Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, |
| 5. | it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, |
| 6. | it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. |
| 7. | It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
| 8. | Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. |
| 9. | For we know partially and we prophesy partially, |
| 10. | but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. |
| 11. | When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. |
| 12. | At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. |
| 13. | So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. |
