1 Corinthians 13

1. I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels; 1 but if I lack love, I have become merely 1 blaring brass or a cymbal clanging.

2. I may have the gift of prophecy, 2 I may fathom all mysteries, know all things, 2 have all faith — enough to move mountains; 2 but if I lack love, I am nothing.

3. I may give away everything that I own, 3 I may even hand over my body to be burned; 3 but if I lack love, I gain nothing.

4. Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful,

5. not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, 5 and it keeps no record of wrongs.

6. Love does not gloat over other people’s sins 6 but takes its delight in the truth.

7. Love always bears up, always trusts, 7 always hopes, always endures.

8. Love never ends; but prophecies will pass, 8 tongues will cease, knowledge will pass.

9. For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy partial;

10. but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass.

11. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, 11 thought like a child, argued like a child; 11 now that I have become a man, 11 I have finished with childish ways.

12. For now we see obscurely in a mirror, 12 but then it will be face to face. 12 Now I know partly; then I will know fully, 12 just as God has fully known me.

13. But for now, three things last — 13 trust, hope, love; 13 and the greatest of these is love.