1 If I speak human or angelic languagesbut do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteriesand all knowledge,and if I have all faithso that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind.Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited,
5 does not act improperly,is not selfish, is not provoked, and does not keep a record of wrongs.
6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousnessbut rejoices in the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things,hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies,they will come to an end;as for languages, they will cease;as for knowledge, it will come to an end.
9 For we know in part,and we prophesy in part.
10 But when the perfect comes,the partial will come to an end.
11 When I was a child,I spoke like a child,I thought like a child,I reasoned like a child.When I became a man,I put aside childish things.
12 For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part,but then I will know fully, as I am fully known.
13 Now these three remain:faith, hope, and love.But the greatest of these is love.