1 Corinthians 13

1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

2And if I have 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.

3and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

3And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

4The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

4Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

5doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

5does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

6rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

6does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

7all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

8Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

9for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:

10and when that which is perfect may come, then that which <FI>is<Fi> in part shall become useless.

10but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.

11When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

12for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

12For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

13and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

13And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.