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1 Corinthians 13
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1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
1If I speak in the languages of humans and even angels, but do not have love, I am just a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2And 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.
2If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have enough faith to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3And 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.
3If I give away everything I own to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but I do not have love, I gain nothing at all.
4Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud.
5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
5Love is not rude, it does not demand its own way, it is not easily angered, and it does not keep a record of wrongs.
6rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
6Love does not celebrate injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
7beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8Love 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.
8Love never ends. But prophecies will stop, the ability to speak in unknown languages will cease, and special knowledge will come to an end.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
9Right now our knowledge is incomplete, and our prophecy is only partial.
10but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
10But when the perfect comes, the things that are partial will disappear.
11When 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.
11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, and I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12For 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.
12Now we see things imperfectly, like a puzzling reflection in a mirror, but then we will see everything face to face. Right now my knowledge is partial, but then I will know everything completely, just as God already knows me completely.