1 CORINTHIANS 13 [†]If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have  a prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,  b so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3[†] c If I give away all I have, and  d if I deliver up my body to be burned, [1] but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 e Love is patient and  f kind; love  g does not envy or boast; it  h is not arrogant 5or rude. It  i does not insist on its own way; it  j is not irritable or resentful; [2] 6it  k does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but  l rejoices with the truth. 7[†] m Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,  e endures all things.

8[†]Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For  n we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but  o when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12[†]For  p now we see in a mirror dimly, but  q then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as  r I have been fully known.

13[†]So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.