1 Corinthians 13

13:1If I speak the languages of men and of the angels, but I have not love, I have become brass resounding, or a cymbal sounding loudly.

13:2And if I have prophecy, and I know the mysteries -- all, and all the knowledge; and if I have all the belief, so as to remove mountains, but I have not love, I am nothing.

13:3And if I should distribute all my possessions, and if I should deliver up my body that it should be burned, but I have not love, not one benefit do I derive.

13:4The love is lenient, is kind; the love is not jealous, the love is not rash, not inflated,

13:5not indecent, does not seek the things for itself, is not provoked, does not consider the bad,

13:6does not rejoice at the injustice, but rejoices with the truth.

13:7All things it sustains, all things it trusts, all things it hopes, all things it endures.

13:8The love at no time falls off. But whether prophecies, they shall cease work; whether languages, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall cease work.

13:9But in part we know, and in part we prophesy.

13:10But whenever the perfect should come, then the thing in part shall cease work.

13:11When I was an infant, as an infant I spoke, as an infant I thought, as an infant I considered; but when I became a man I ceased in the things of the infant.

13:12For we see now by a mirror in an enigma, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall recognize as also I was recognized.

13:13But now abide belief, hope, love, these three; but greater of these is the love.