1If I speak in human languages and in the languages of angels, but do not have love, I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3If I give away everything I own to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, it benefits me nothing.
4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy. Love does not brag and is not proud,
5does not behave rudely, does not seek its own interests, is not easily angered, and keeps no record of wrongs;
6does not find joy in injustice, but rejoices with the truth;
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails. But prophecies will come to an end, languages will cease, and knowledge will pass away.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10but when completeness comes, what is partial will disappear.
11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I stopped doing childish things.
12For now we see a dim reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know partially, but then I will know fully, just as I am fully known.
13So now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. But the greatest of these is love.