1 Corinthians 12:31-13:9

EJ2000(i) 31 But earnestly pursue the best gifts, and yet I show unto you a more excellent way. 13 1 ¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity, it profits me nothing. 4 ¶ Charity suffers long and is benign; charity envies not; charity does nothing without due reason, is not puffed up, 5 is not injurious, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, 6 rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 ¶ Charity is never lost, but prophecies shall come to an end, tongues shall cease, and knowledge shall come to an end. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.