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.

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, but have not love, I am nothing.

And 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 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.

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

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

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

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

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

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

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth 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.

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be 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 has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

but when that which is perfect is 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 spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am 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 shall know just as I also am known.

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

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

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.