The Epistle of Paul to the First Corinthians
13: 1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am
become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 13:2And 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. 13:3And 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. 13:4Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 13:5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh
not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 13:6rejoiceth not in
unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 13:7beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 13:8Love 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. 13:9For we know in part,
and we prophesy in part; 13:10but when that which is perfect is come, that which is
in part shall be done away. 13:11When 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. 13:12For 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. 13:13But now
abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.