1 Corinthians 13:1-13
13 * If I speak the languages of men and angels but do not have love, I turn into a gong sounding or a cymbal clashing;
2 and if I have prophecy and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing;
3 and if I give all my possessions in charity, and if I give up my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I am none the better.
4 Love is patient, kind; love is not jealous; love does not show off, does not get inflated,
5 does not shock people, does not look out for its own interests, does not get provoked, does not count its injuries,
6 is not glad at a wrong deed but glad to have the truth made glad,
7 stands everything, believes everything, hopes everything, holds out through everything.
8 * Love never drops away; but as for prophecies they will be superseded, as for languages they will come to a stop, as for knowledge it will be superseded;
9 for it is in part that we know and in part that we prophesy,
10 but when the complete comes the partial will be superseded.
11 When I was a child I used a child’s language, took a child’s views, made a child’s calculations; since I have become a man I have superseded the child’s ways.
12 For we see now by a mirror, as a puzzle to be guessed at, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall be aware in the same way as he was aware of me.
13 And now there remain faith, hope, love—these three. And greatest of these is love.
Footnotes
^ 13:1 Or turn into a kettle clattering
^ 13:8 Lit. whether prophecies . . . whether languages . . . whether knowledge
