1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues[a]Ā of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.Ā 2Ā If I have the gift of prophecyĀ and can fathom all mysteriesĀ and all knowledge,Ā and if I have a faithĀ that can move mountains,Ā but do not have love, I am nothing.Ā 3Ā If I give all I possess to the poorĀ and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b]Ā but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Ā Love is patient,Ā love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.Ā 5Ā It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,Ā it is not easily angered,Ā it keeps no record of wrongs.Ā 6Ā Love does not delight in evilĀ but rejoices with the truth.Ā 7Ā It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Ā Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,Ā they will cease; where there are tongues,Ā they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.Ā 9Ā For we know in partĀ and we prophesy in part,Ā 10Ā but when completeness comes,Ā what is in part disappears.Ā 11Ā When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhoodĀ behind me.Ā 12Ā For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;Ā then we shall see face to face.Ā Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13Ā And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.Ā But the greatest of these is love.


















