1 T hough I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have 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, 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, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 L ove suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

5 d oes not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

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

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

8 L ove never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

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

10 B ut when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will 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 in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

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