1 If I speak in the tongues of human beings and of angels, but have no love, I have become resounding bronze or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing. 3 And if I distribute all my possessions to feed others, and if I hand over my body to be burned, but have no love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient; love is kind. Love does not envy, does not boast, is not puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not seek its own interests, is not provoked, does not keep account of wrongs, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But prophecies will be done away with, tongues will cease, and knowledge will be done away with. 9 For we know in part and prophesy in part, 10 but when what is perfect comes, what is partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put away 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 have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love remain, these three, but the greatest of these is love.