1 If I speak human or angelic tongues  * 13:1 languages, also in v. 8 but do not have love,  * 13:1 Jn 13:35; 1Jn 4:7–12 I am a noisy gong  * 13:1 Mt 10:9 or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy  * 13:2 1Co 14:1,3–6,22–39; Eph 4:11; 1Th 5:20 and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains  * 13:2 Mt 17:20 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  * 13:3 Other mss read body to be burned but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient,  * 13:4 1Th 5:14 love is kind. Love does not envy,  * 13:4 Nm 25:13; Gl 4:17 is not boastful, is not arrogant,  * 13:4 1Co 4:65 is not rude, is not self-seeking,  * 13:5 Mk 10:45; Php 2:4 is not irritable,  * 13:5 Ac 17:16 and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.  * 13:6 Ps 119:142; Jn 8:14; 14:67 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures  * 13:7 Jms 1:12 all things.

8 Love never ends.  * 13:8 Mt 7:25,27; Lk 6:49; 11:17; 13:4; 16:17; Ac 15:16; Heb 11:30; Rv 11:13; 16:19 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  * 13:12 Lit we see indirectly as in a mirror, but then face to face.  * 13:12 1Jn 3:2 Now I know in part, but then I will know fully,  * 13:12 Pr 2:6; Jn 17:3; 1Jn 4:8 as I am fully known.  * 13:12 1Co 8:3; Gl 4:913 Now these three remain: faith, hope,  * 13:13 1Th 1:3 and love — but the greatest of these is love.