1 Corinthians, 13

1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

1. If I could speak all the human and angelic tongues, but had no love, I would only be sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2. And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

2. If I had prophecy, knowing secret things with all kinds of knowledge, and had faith great enough to remove mountains, but had no love, I would be nothing.

3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

3. If I gave everything I had to the poor, and even gave up my own body, but only to receive praise and not through love, it would be of no value to me.

4. Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

4. Love is patient, kind, without envy. It is not boastful or arrogant. It is not ill-mannered nor does it seek its own interest.

5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

5. Love overcomes anger and forgets offenses.

6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

6. It does not take delight in wrong, but rejoices in truth.

7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

7. Love excuses everything, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8. Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.

8. Love will never end. Prophecies may cease, tongues be silent and knowledge disappear.

9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

9. For knowledge grasps something of the truth and prophecy as well.

10. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

10. And when what is perfect comes, everything imperfect will pass away.

11. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

11. When I was a child I thought and reasoned like a child, but when I grew up, I gave up childish ways.

12. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

12. Likewise, at present we see dimly as in a faulty mirror, but then it shall be face to face. Now we know in part, but then I will know as I am known.

13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.

13. Now we have faith, hope and love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.