¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal .

²If I have the gift of prophecy , and know all mysteries and all knowledge , and if I have all faith , so as to remove mountains , but don’t have love, I am nothing .

³If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burnt , but don’t have love, it profits me nothing .

⁴Love is patient and is kind . Love doesn’t envy . Love doesn’t brag , is not proud ,

⁵doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked , takes no account of evil ;

⁶doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

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

⁸Love never fails . But where there are prophecies , they will be done away with . Where there are various languages , they will cease . Where there is knowledge , it will be done away with .

⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part ;

¹⁰but when that which is complete has come , then that which is partial will be done away with .

¹¹When I was a child , I spoke as a child , I felt as a child , I thought as a child . Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things .

¹²For now we see in a mirror , dimly, but then face to face . Now I know in part , but then I will know fully , even as I was also fully known .

¹³But now faith , hope , and love remain —these three . The greatest of these is love.