1 Corinthians 13 (English - RSV)

  1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
  2. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
  3. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
  4. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
  5. it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
  6. it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
  7. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  8. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
  9. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
  10. but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
  11. When 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 gave up childish ways.
  12. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
  13. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.