Coverdale(i)
31 But covet ye the best giftes. And yet shewe I you a more excellent waye.
13 1 Though I spake with the tunges of men and angels, and yet had not loue, I were euen as sowndinge brasse, or as a tynklinge Cymball.
2 And though I coulde prophecy, & vnderstode all secretes, and all knowlege, and had all faith, so that I coulde moue moutaynes out of their places, and yet had not loue, I were nothinge.
3 And though I bestowed all my goodes to fede ye poore, and though I gaue my body euen that I burned, and yet haue not loue, it profiteth me nothinge.
4 Loue is pacient & curteous, loue envyeth not, loue doth not frowardly, is not puft vp, dealeth not dishonestly,
5 seketh not hir awne, is not prouoked vnto anger, thynketh not euell,
6 reioyseth not ouer iniquyte, but reioyseth in the trueth,
7 beareth all thinges, beleueth all thinges, hopeth all thinges, suffreth all thinges.
8 Though prophecienges fayle, or tunges ceasse, or knowlege perishe, yet loue falleth neuer awaye.
9 For oure knowlege is vnparfecte, and oure prophecienge is vnparfecte.