1 If with the tongues of the men I speak and of the messengers, love but I have, I have become brass sounding or a cymbal noisy.2 And if I have prophecy, and I know the secrets all and all the knowledge, and id I have all the faith, so that mountains to remove, love but not have, nothing I am.3 And if I bestow all the possessions of me, and if I should give the body of me so that it should be burned, love but not have, nothing I am profited.4 The love suffers long, is gentle; the love not envies; the love not is boastful, not is puffed up,5 not acts unbecomingly, not seeks the things of herself, not is provoked to anger, not imputes the evil,6 not rejoices in the iniquity, rejoices with but the truth,7 all things covers, all things believes, all things hopes, all things endures;8 the love not at any time falls off; whether but prophecies, they will be done away whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away.9 From parts for we know, and from parts we prophesy;10 when but may come the prefect, then that from parts will be done a way.11 When I was a babe, as babe I spoke, as a babe I thought, as babe reasoned; since but I have become a man, I have put away the things of the babe.12 We see for now through a glass in an enigma, then but face to face; now I know from parts, then but I shall know fully even as and I fully known.13 Now but abides faith, hope, love, the three these; greater but of these the love.

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have love, I have become like loud sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.2 If I have the gift of prophesy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.4 Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant proud.5 Love does not act indecently. It is not selfish. It is not provoked and does not take into account a wrong suffered.6 Love does not rejoice with evil, but rejoices with the truth.7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.8 Love never fails. Where there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.10 When the perfect comes, the partial imperfectincomplete will be done away.11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, and reason like a child. When I became an adult I did away with childish things.12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, and then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.13 Faith, hope and love remain. These three! The greatest of these is love!