1 Corinthians 13:1-13

JPS_ASV_Byz(i) 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Love suffereth long, and is kind, love envieth not, love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil, 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth, 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Love never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away, whether there be tongues, they shall cease, whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child; now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three, and the greatest of these is love.