1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 And 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 have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

现在我要把更高的道路指示你们。 1 我若能说世人和天使的方言，却没有爱，我就成了鸣的锣、响的钹一样。2 我若有先知讲道的恩赐，也明白各样的奥秘，各样的知识；并且有全备的信，叫我能够移山，却没有爱，我就算不得甚么。3 我若把一切所有的分给人，又舍己身被人焚烧，却没有爱，对我仍然毫无益处。

4 爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈。爱是不嫉妒，不自夸，不张狂；5 不作失礼的事，不求自己的益处，不轻易动怒，不计较人的过犯；6 不喜欢不义，只喜欢真理。7 爱是凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。

8 爱是永存不息的。先知的讲道终必过去，方言终必停止，知识终必消失。9 因为我们现在所知道的，只是一部分；所讲的道也只是一部分；10 等那完全的来到，这部分的就要过去了。11 我作孩子的时候，说话像孩子，心思像孩子，想法像孩子，既然长大了，就把孩子的事都丢弃了。12 我们现在是对着镜子观看，模糊不清，到那时就要面对面了。我现在所知道的只是一部分，到那时就完全知道了，好象主完全知道我一样。13 现在常存的有信、望、爱这三样，其中最大的是爱。