1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have *[ch. 14:1,39;Matt. 7:22]; See Acts 2:18prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, *Matt. 17:20;Mark 11:23;[Luke 17:6]so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 *[Matt. 6:2] If I give away all I have, and *Dan. 3:28if I deliver up my body to be burned,*13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 *[Prov. 10:12;17:9;1 Thess. 5:14;2 Tim. 2:10;1 Pet. 4:8] Love is patient and *[2 Cor. 6:6;Gal. 5:22;Eph. 4:32;Col. 3:12] kind; love *Acts 7:9does not envy or boast; it *See ch. 4:6is not arrogant 5 or rude. It *See ch. 10:24does not insist on its own way; it *[Rom. 4:6;2 Cor. 5:19]is not irritable or resentful;*13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing6 it *[Rom. 1:32;2 Thess. 2:12] does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but *[2 John 4;3 John 3,4]rejoices with the truth. 7 *ch. 9:12Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, *[See ver. 4above]endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For *[ch. 8:2]we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but *[John 15:15]when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 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 gave up childish ways. 12 For *James 1:23;[Num. 12:8;Job 36:26;2 Cor. 3:18;5:7] now we see in a mirror dimly, but *1 John 3:2;See Matt. 5:8then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as *See ch. 8:3I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.