and of angels,
but do not have love,
I have become a noisy gong or
a clanging cymbal. 2 If 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 do not have love, I
am nothing.
3 And if I give all my possessions
to feed the poor,
and if I surrender my body to be burned,
but do not have love,
it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient,
love is kind and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it
does not seek its own,
is not pro voked,
does not take into account a wrong
suffered, 6 does not rejoice
in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things,
endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if
there are gifts of prophecy,
they will be done away; if there are tongues,
they will cease; if there is knowledge,
it will be done away. 9 For we
know in part and we
prophesy in part; 10 but
when the perfect comes,
the partial will be done away.
11 When I was a child,
I used to speak like a child,
think like a child,
reason like a child; when I became
a man, I did away with childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly,
but then face to face; now
I know in part,
but then I will know fully just
as I also have been
fully known. 13 But now faith,
hope, love, abide these three; but
the greatest of these is love.