If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
BUT HAVE NOT LOVE,
I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
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.
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.
LOVE suffereth long, and is kind;
LOVE envieth not;
LOVE vaunteth not itself,
Is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly,
Seeketh not its own,
Is not provoked,
Taketh not account of evil;
Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness,
But rejoiceth with the truth;
Beareth all things,
Believeth all things,
Hopeth all things,
Endureth all things.
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.
For we know in part,
And we prophesy in part;
But when that which is perfect is come,
That which is in part shall be done away.
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.
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.
But now abideth
FAITH, HOPE, LOVE,
These three;
And the greatest of these is
LOVE