1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I have become like a noisy gong, or a clanging cymbal.
2And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.
3And if I give away everything I own to feed the poor, and if I give up my body to be burned, but have no love, it does me no good at all.
4Love is patient, and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not boast, and is not proud.
5It does not behave shamefully. It does not look after itself alone. It is not easily angered. It thinks no evil.
6It does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.
7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will come to an end. If there are tongues, they will stop. If there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part.
10But when what is perfect comes, then what is only in part will be done away.
11When 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 away childish things.
12For now we see in a mirror, dimly; but then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.