1 I f I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2 A nd if I have 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 A nd if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

4 L ove has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

5 d oes not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

6 d oes not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

7 b ears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 L ove never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

9 F or we know in part, and we prophesy in part:

10 b ut when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.

11 W hen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

12 F or we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

13 A nd now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these love.