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 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 shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.

4 Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous {of others}; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

5 does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

6 does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:

10 but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

12 For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these {is} love.

1 Kui ma inimeste ja inglite keeltega räägiksin, aga mul poleks armastust, oleksin ma vaid kumisev vask ja k

2 Ja kui mul oleks prohvetianne ja ma teaksin k

3 Ja kui ma jagaksin k

4 Armastus on pikameelne, armastus on täis heldust; ta ei ole kade, armastus ei suurustle, ta ei ole iseennast täis;

5 ta ei ole viisakuseta, ta ei otsi omakasu, ta ei ärritu, ta ei pea meeles paha;

6 ta ei r

7 tema vabandab k

8 Armastus ei hävi ilmaski! Aga olgu prohveti ennustused, need kaovad; olgu keeled, need lakkavad; olgu tunnetus, see l

9 Sest poolik on, mida me tunnetame, ja poolik, mida me ennustame.

10 Aga kui tuleb täiuslik asi, siis kaob see, mis on poolik!

11 Kui ma olin väeti laps, siis ma rääkisin nagu väeti laps, ma m

12 Sest nüüd me näeme nagu peeglis tuhmi kujutist, aga siis palgest palgesse; nüüd ma tunnetan poolikult, aga siis ma tunnetan täiesti, nagu minagi olen täiesti tunnetatud.

13 Ent nüüd jääb usk, lootus, armastus, need kolm; aga suurim neist on armastus!