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.

2 A nd 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.

3 A nd though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity, it profits me nothing.

4 ¶ Charity suffers long and is benign; charity envies not; charity does nothing without due reason, is not puffed up,

5 i s not injurious, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

6 r ejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

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

8 ¶ Charity is never lost, but prophecies shall come to an end, tongues shall cease, and knowledge shall come to an end.

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

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

11 W hen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 F or now we see as through a mirror, in darkness, but then we shall see face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I also am known.

13 A nd now abide faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.