1 Corinthians 13

¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

²And if I have prophecy and know all the mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

³and if I dole out all my possessions, and if I give up my body that I may boast, but do not have love, I am profited nothing.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy, love does not boast, it is not puffed up,

⁵does not behave dishonorably, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not reckon the evil,

⁶it does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

⁷Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸Love never falls. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be done away.

⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

¹⁰but when the perfect comes, what is partial will be done away with.

¹¹When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, thinking like a child, reasoning like a child; when I became a man, I have done away with the things of childhood.

¹²For now we see through a mirror in a riddle, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will fully know just as I was also fully known.

¹³But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.