1 I f I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

2 I f I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

3 A nd if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

4 L ove is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

5 d oes not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

6 d oes not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, 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 L ove never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

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 the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

11 W hen I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

12 F or now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

13 B ut now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.