1 If I speak human or angelic tongues  * but do not have love,  * I am a noisy gong  * or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy  * and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains  * but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over 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 arrogant,  *5 is not rude, is not self-seeking,  * is not irritable,  * and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but 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 tongues, 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 only a reflection  * 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.