1 If I were to speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.2 And if I were to have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I were to have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.3 And if I were to bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I were to give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.4 Love is longsuffering and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast itself, is not puffed up;5 does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;7 covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will come to an end; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will come to an end.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.10 But when the complete whole comes, then that which is in part will come to an end.11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put an end to childish things.12 For now we see through a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know just as I also am fully known.13 And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.