1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 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 do not have love, I am nothing. 3And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not puffed up, 5does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take account of evil; 6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8Love never fails: but whether there are prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall be done away. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away. 11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know fully even as I also was fully known. 13But now abides faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.