[1] If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. [2] 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] And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good. [4] Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. [5] It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, [6] it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; [7] it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [8] Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. [9] For we know in part and prophesy in part; [10] but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with. [11] 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] 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] But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
