1 IF I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.2 And if I have the power of prophecy and understand 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 distribute all that I have to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.4 Love is longsuffering, love is kind, is not jealous, love does not boast, is not conceited,5 does not behave unbecomingly, does not seek her own interest, is not irritable, does not count up her wrongs,6 does not rejoice in wickedness, but rejoices with the truth,7 excuses all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never fails; but if there are prophetic powers, they will become useless; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will become useless.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,10 but when the perfect comes what is in part will become useless.11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. Since I have become a man, I have no use for childish things.12 For as yet we are looking at puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then face to face. As yet I know in part, but then I shall know fully, as I have been fully known.13 But now faith, hope, love \'97 these three \'97 endure. And the greatest of these is love.