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 do not have love, I have become a noisy gong 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.

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 do not have 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 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.

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

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

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

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

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

does not 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 whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

Love 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.

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 the perfect comes, the partial 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.

When 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.

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 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.

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

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.