1 Corinthians 13

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

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

And if I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body, so that I might boast, but I do not have love, I gain nothing. \*

Love is patient {and} is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast; it is not puffed up.

It is not rude; it does not seek {its} own; it is not easily angered; it does not keep a count of the wrongs.

It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. \*

Love never fails. But if {there are} prophecies, they will pass away; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will pass away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

But when the perfect comes, {that which is} partial will pass away. \*

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 put away the things of the child.

For now we see unclearly in a mirror, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known.

But now these three remain: faith, hope, {and} love. But the greatest of these {is} love. \*