MNT(i)
31 Desire earnestly the greater gifts. And yet I will go on to show you a still more excellent way.
13 1 Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.
2 Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I sell all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it avails me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,
5 is not rude, nor selfish, nor easily provoked. Love bears no malice, never rejoices over wrong-doing,
6 but rejoices when the truth rejoices.
7 It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.
8 Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.
9 For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;