1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I should have prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And if I may give away all my possessions, and I may deliver up my body that I may boast, but have not love, I am profited nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind, love is not envious, it is not boastful, it is not puffed up.
5 It does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek the things of its own, it is not easily provoked, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 It does not delight at unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are prophesies, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will be ceased; if there is knowledge it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 but when the perfect should come, the partial will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child; when I became a man, I did away with the things of the child.
12 For presently we see through a glass in obscurity; but then, face to face. Presently, I know in part; but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 But now these three things abide: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.