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| 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. |
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| 2 And 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, and have not love, I am nothing. |
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| 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. |
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| 4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
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| 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; |
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| 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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| 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. |
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| 8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. |
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| 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
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| 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. |
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| 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. |
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| 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. |
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| 13 And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. |
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