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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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