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.

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 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.

And 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 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.

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

Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

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

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

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

does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

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

bears 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.

Love 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.

For 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.

but 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 understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

When 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 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.

For 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, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these love.