Chapter 13
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body, that I might boast, but do not have love, I accomplish nothing.
4Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious, does not boast and is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs suffered, 6it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.
8Love never ends, but as for prophecies, they will be brought to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be brought to an end. 9For we know in part, and we prophecy in part, 10but when the perfect[a] comes, the partial will be brought to an end. 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 put an end to childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror indirectly,[b] but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
13So now these three remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.
[a] lit. “complete”
[b] lit. “dimly”
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