1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 我若能說萬人的方言，並天使的話語，卻沒有愛，我就成了鳴的鑼，響的鈸一般。

2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

2 我若有先知講道之能，也明白各樣的奧祕，各樣的知識，而且有全備的信，叫我能夠移山，卻沒有愛，我就算不得甚麼。

3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

3 我若將所有的賙濟窮人，又捨己身叫人焚燒，卻沒有愛，仍然與我無益。

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

4 愛是恆久忍耐，又有恩慈；愛是不嫉妒；愛是不自誇，不張狂，

5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

5 不做害羞的事，不求自己的益處，不輕易發怒，不計算人的惡，

6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

6 不喜歡不義，只喜歡真理；

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

7 凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

8 愛是永不止息。先知講道之能終必歸於無有；說方言之能終必停止；知識也終必歸於無有。

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

9 我們現在所知道的有限，先知所講的也有限，

10 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

10 等那完全的來到，這有限的必歸於無有了。

11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

11 我作孩子的時候，話語像孩子，心思像孩子，意念像孩子，既成了人，就把孩子的事丟棄了。

12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

12 我們如今彷彿對着鏡子觀看，模糊不清 ，到那時就要面對面了。我如今所知道的有限，到那時就全知道，如同主知道我一樣。

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

13 如今常存的有信，有望，有愛這三樣，其中最大的是愛。