If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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 don’t have love, I am nothing.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor , and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love 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.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When 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.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For 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.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.